This guy living his best weirdest life

This could be in a textbook on a chapter about political zealots in 100 years.

Or, mass psychosis. Or, cults.
- I'm hoping the Galactic Federation's Prime Directive has a clause for imminent collapse, like any RATIONAL version would.

Tell me your adult children don't speak with you without saying it.

- Or: tell me you fantasize about sexual relations with your own children without saying it.

These types of people hate gay people for being so "flamboyant and in your face" but these types are super fabulous and the most peacocking people.

Seriously. Gold sneakers, man purse, fancy hat, and a swirly cocktail in a sugar rimmed glass. If that isn't fabulous, then I didn't know what is.
- And, tellingly, not a single friend to eat with. Dude looks like he lost a bet.
Projection, projection, projection

It's like when you let a little kid choose their own clothes.

Absolutely this.
"Of course buddy you can dress up like a felon billionaire"
It's at least cute when they are young...

I’M VOTING FOR THE CONVICTED ELON

Prophetic

I love how these people openly and proudly admit that they're voting for a criminal to run the country.
- While simultaneously putting up signs that read “Back the Blue”. Critical thinking is not their strong point.
- And if you were to ask them why, their response: "To OwN tHe LiBs!!1! 🤪"

He's even got the shoes!

It's beautiful.
A beautiful beautiful mess

Lmao the guy who's worried about the "deep state" has a free masons tattoo. Not only is he a walking joke, he's a walking contradiction.

The one thing I genuinely like about trumpers, is that they advertise that they're stupid and a horrible person, on the outside.

You can skip over the whole "getting to know them" part and go straight to ghosting them.

You know how in nature some venomous/poisonous animals have bright colouring to warn not to touch or approach them? Trumpers are just like that.
When you lack a personality of your own.
For being so aggressively against anything seen as feminine it genuinely makes me giggle that they love to accesorize so much.
My daughter moved from Texas up to the Northeast about five years ago. One of the differences she observed is that she says it's a lot easier to tell which people are idiots in Texas because they advertise it. The northeasterners keep it closer to the vest.

His handbag doesn’t have Trump on it, he’s a fake.

It's a European Carry All
That's not his handbag. His wife left it there as a decoy while she "went to the little girls' room."
Actually she's taken the car with her real handbag and is already 20 miles down I-80, headed to California for an abortion, a restraining order, and a new life.

I very much encourage and appreciate that these dildos continue to self-identify so I can give them a very wide berth

A highchair seems fitting

My character creator with only the free items

Those shoes need little heels

can someone give me a genuine reason why people are voting for the guy who is a convicted felon, has colluded with national governments, and engaged in corruption, as well as tried to literally overthrow the government. STILL refuses to accept the results of that election.

in good faith. No shitposting please, it's funny, but i don't fucking understand it, and i want answers.

Because it’s a cult
- that's a possibility, and if trump doesn't win this race, it's extremely unlikely the RNC runs him again, so the question is how many of those voters are unwavering trump supporters that would kill any chance of an RNC candidate winning again.
  but it also just, doesn't feel super likely to me either, like we're talking about heavens gate level shit, which is possible, i think it's more likely that these people are simply delusional, and just stupid and misinformed, as harsh as that is.
Well from my understanding of what Trump supporters think let's answer those in order.
He's not a convicted felon, they were sham political trials by the Democrats so he's not really a felon. The collusion with foreign governments is fake news and also Biden has done it too with the whole Ukraine and Hunter Biden's laptop thing. He's not corrupt because he's rich and can't be owned by corporate interests unlike Democrats and other Republicans. And the overthrowing the government and election stuff is him fighting for the truth because it was the Democrats who stole the election.
That's about what they think from my understanding and the problem with fighting against that stuff is that in some cases it's just a fundamentally different reality then what's actually happening. They're just in too deep and won't ever think critically or realize they've been duped into believing all this crazy stuff.
- that's a definite possibility. But i feel like a significant portion of these people would also be the kind of person where if i showed up with a shotgun, and told them it was unloaded, and then had them point it at themselves and pull the trigger they would end up blown to bits.
  Like i feel like if you're this comprehensively mind fucked, you would be expected to be generally mind fucked as well, to recap, they believe the ENTIRE political apparatus is ENTIRELY corrupt and biased solely against trump.
  And we do see some of this, jan 6th deniers like that google whistleblower buy just being general conspiracy theorists. But this would surely only account for like 10-20% of the vote at max. There has to be some universal reality between these people other than they're all literally fucking insane.
  A thing that really bothers me, is that this isn't like vaccine shit where the data isn't super readily accessible, shit like jan 6th is heavily documented and just out there for you to watch and consume what actually happened. Which is why we see the "it was a psyop" people crop up, but these people are just legitimately insane.
The libs took the power and the control, they are evil. They abort babies, they change the gender of our children. Their system is what accused, judged and sentenced Trump. We have to vote for him to free this beloved country from this evil. Trump is our only guy that can do that. We have to vote for him. And hopefully after Trump is elected he will fix our broken system that brought the libs to power. And they wont be allowed to power ever again.
Not my opinion of course, but I have friends that say exactly this.
- The libs took the power and the control, they are evil.
  i have never once seen any evidence of this being the case, every statement about this has been pure schizophrenia in my experience. This is also like, a fucking massive claim.
  Their system is what accused, judged and sentenced Trump.
  who actually committed crimes, numerous times, and is demonstrably corrupt.
  And hopefully after Trump is elected he will fix our broken system that brought the libs to power. And they wont be allowed to power ever again.
  he was president for a single term and did basically fuck all. He passed like 5 things.
  Not my opinion of course, but I have friends that say exactly this.
  it takes like 12 seconds to fact check ANY of these things. Why don't they do it?
I think the best answer is it varies quite a bit.
Some people it is a sunk cost fallacy. They went all in on Trump in '16 as the outside, antiestablishment candidate. They alienated friends and family either emulating him or just repeating his insults. Then once alienated from friends family they found solace in other people who experienced similar outcomes. This only reinforced their ideas that they were right all along. Trump not only winning but being right about everything is the only way they think they will be vindicated. If Trump is right then sooner or later those that cut ties with them will come back. If Trump is/was wrong, then they are wrong and if they are wrong they have lost years with loved ones, maybe the rest of their lives with those people due to their actions. Trump is all they have now and they need him to win/be right.
Others I think are just good old conspiracy weirdos. They may or may not have voted for Trump in '16, but Q Anon or Covid conspiracies or Pizzagate got them wrapped up and Trump is their winning hand. He is their way to unraveling some deep seeded conspiracy where all the bad things in the world are the fault of a few people like Bill Gates or George Soros. Trump is also their retribution for all the bad things that have happened and Trump plays into this saying they are after you but he is in the way.
There are probably a few who are just grifters. They dont give a fuck about any MAGA stuff and only are in it to make a buck. They have now seen how MAGA will turn on you if you speak out like Rogan or Rittenhouse and their only choice is to keep on grifting.
Still others I think are people who are in the right wing news bubble. Decades of Fox news or Newsmaxx/OANN, combined with right wong talk radio of hearing how all Dems are evil or working with the literal Christian devil and Trump is the only person you can vote for. Third party candidates you probably never hear of and if all you see/hear is how good Trump is and any bad things happening to him is the fault of Dems then you have no choice but to vote for Trump. I mean would you vote for someone you thought was an avatar of evil?
Finally are probably the ones who I think literally want to be part of a dictator state. Trump is a means to an end. Project 2025 lays out their plans to usurp the entire government with sycophants. They would weild the levers of power to ensure they never have a serious opposition candidate again. The chants of "lock her up" will be replaced with actions. Anyone even remotely left of them would be in danger of being labeled a radical and in need of being arrested and likely never see the inside of a court room.
Most probably hit a few of these but I think these are the major reasons people are for Trump despite his negatives. I think if you ask people though one of these will likely be the main reason.
- Some people it is a sunk cost fallacy. They went all in on Trump in '16 as the outside, antiestablishment candidate. They alienated friends and family either emulating him or just repeating his insults. Then once alienated from friends family they found solace in other people who experienced similar outcomes. This only reinforced their ideas that they were right all along. Trump not only winning but being right about everything is the only way they think they will be vindicated. If Trump is right then sooner or later those that cut ties with them will come back. If Trump is/was wrong, then they are wrong and if they are wrong they have lost years with loved ones, maybe the rest of their lives with those people due to their actions. Trump is all they have now and they need him to win/be right.
  yeah this seems like one of the more probable options for a percentage of them.
  Others I think are just good old conspiracy weirdos. They may or may not have voted for Trump in '16, but Q Anon or Covid conspiracies or Pizzagate got them wrapped up and Trump is their winning hand. He is their way to unraveling some deep seeded conspiracy where all the bad things in the world are the fault of a few people like Bill Gates or George Soros. Trump is also their retribution for all the bad things that have happened and Trump plays into this saying they are after you but he is in the way.
  i suspect this one has to be less than like 5% but it's definitely there.
  Still others I think are people who are in the right wing news bubble. Decades of Fox news or Newsmaxx/OANN, combined with right wong talk radio of hearing how all Dems are evil or working with the literal Christian devil and Trump is the only person you can vote for. Third party candidates you probably never hear of and if all you see/hear is how good Trump is and any bad things happening to him is the fault of Dems then you have no choice but to vote for Trump. I mean would you vote for someone you thought was an avatar of evil?
  i think this is probably the majority of it, but my fundamental problem here is that this has gone so far that these people MUST have a fundamental disconnection with reality. I.E. be delusional, because it literally takes 5 seconds of googling, catching a random clip of kamalas campaign, seeing some of the legislation that biden passed, seeing how trump just grenades everything at every chance he gets, jan 6th literally being an attempted coup? Like there are SO many possibilities for people to realize "hey something isn't right here" and they've either ignored ALL of them, or they simply don't believe any of them, making them delusional. So either these people literally don't interact with politics AT ALL outside of like three minutes a day. Or they're the type of person to go bomb a government building because someone on twitter said they rape babies in the basement. There's a fine line between "they just exist in the right wing sphere" and "the entire right wing sphere is a delusional cult" here. Fox news was also sued and lost the dominion voting machine case also, they SHOULD have heard about that, even as a fox news viewer. So either fox is twisting the truth and lying more (or the other outlets) or they literally do not see anything outside of these outlets.
  Finally are probably the ones who I think literally want to be part of a dictator state. Trump is a means to an end. Project 2025 lays out their plans to usurp the entire government with sycophants. They would weild the levers of power to ensure they never have a serious opposition candidate again. The chants of “lock her up” will be replaced with actions. Anyone even remotely left of them would be in danger of being labeled a radical and in need of being arrested and likely never see the inside of a court room.
  i think this is probably a subset of the first two. More than anything else.
  Most probably hit a few of these but I think these are the major reasons people are for Trump despite his negatives. I think if you ask people though one of these will likely be the main reason.
  yeah i would generally agree, but i'm concerned that this is still apparently at least 40% of our voter base? Like to me, it has to be SO far out there that 40% of the population genuinely cannot in good faith believe this. So either the vast majority of our population has the political acuity of a rock in front of a television, or they're all bad faith. And if it's the former... we're fucked. Politics was never meant to be this surface level. It's a functional mechanism for governing one of the largest countries by most metrics in the world. There is no "yeah it's probably fine" here for me. Another problem that i have is that this is all behind the functioning of fascism, which means a significant portion of our population is directly susceptible to literal fascism. That as far as i am concerned, is a failure of the american project.
You see lots of people say that, "It's a cult." and leave it at that.
It absolutely has elements of a new religious movement. They have been brainwashed by YouTube, Facebook groups, telegram or whatever messaging app they're using now. Real big overlap between Qanon and hardcore MAGAts.
It plays into their bias and tells them they're special, that they see behind the curtain. Their life is miserable due to a conspiracy by the evil liberals, the 1%, and the Jews.
It short circuits logic by punching the fear and anger button. Most of them are angry and afraid.
Chump didn't plan this shit, it's like a perfect storm of bullshit.
Sucks real bad and I don't think there is any way to help most of them. They're bent for life even if Chump is gone. They'll latch on to the next thing. May fracture into a bunch of weird offshoots. Right wing grifters have made fortunes off them. I think it unlikely that many of them ever make it back to reality.
- so basically its just fascism, but america instead.
"it makes the libs upset, so it must be good."
- that's possible but then these people are potentially classified as election interference causing people, as they aren't voting to vote anymore. But then again maybe that's good enough for democracy.
They are voting for the anti-christ so the rapture can begin and they go to heaven.
- hm. Maybe? But they also think that trump is a legitimately good candidate, this isn't some accelerationist bullshit or anything.
A mix between it's a cult, sadism, and not getting theirs so wanting to watch the world burn.

Haha 😂 even the gay community is like "Naa.. That's too much...Tone it down, guy..."
- Am a gay (sorta...trixic enby), and can confirm.
  https://media.tenor.com/8zs_qRxrXjcAAAAM/can-confirm-katy.gif

Dumbest mark I've seen in a while. Wish I had a bridge to sell this guy.

You don't?
Does he know you don't?
Sell it to him anyways.
If you painted 'trump' across the side I bet he'd sell his kids to buy it.

God's most perfect idiot

That shirt makes him look like his own red flag.

This makes me sad. The dude probably has zero personality. Put all his points into cult shit.

He things 'being angry at trans kids' is a personality trait and not a mental illness.

Behold, a basement dweller!

Trump hates those guys.

I am genuinely curious, I don't try to be smug. So please don't get this wrong, but I have to ask: is it legal & OK in the US to take pictures of people w/o their consent?

- Interesting, thank you.
It's legal if you're in a place with no reasonable expectation of privacy, such as a restaurant.
Outside of using someone's likeness for commercial gain, pretty much anywhere that is public property you can't be stopped from photographing anything you can see. Private property can make their own rules but all they can do is trespass you and kick you out, it's still not illegal. Public photography is generally protected under the first amendment free press.
While it is legal to take pictures of people in public without their consent in the US, it is generally frowned upon.
That being said, people who vote the way this guy does take pictures of queer people just existing and share them around online to doxx them, so turnabout is fair play. Fuck these pricks, they deserve every bit of awfulness coming to them.
In a lot of places in the EU, I think it's legal to take pictures. What you can do with said picture, differs quite a bit. Uploading it, like this, would be very much illegal. Which begs the question: is it legal in the US to upload such images, without consent?
In many cases we have a first amendment protected right to take pictures in public.

I particularly like his purse. It somehow compliments the shoes.

It's good to have a polite purse I suppose.

Clown, mascot, amateur wrestler? Or maybe he's going to a football game.

He bought The shoes. 😂

5 bucks says hes hit a woman for "disrespecting" him on more than one occasion.

The disrespect, of course, being pointing out/correcting some minor inconsequential thing he was wrong about.

5 bucks he's said 'you're one of the good ones' at least once in the last six months
10 he's got a secret trans porn folder

Total sub bottom energy.

Bet he's a power bottom

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The “Never Surrender” high tops have a hefty price tag of $399, but the shoes have already sparked fierce bidding wars online due to their exclusivity.
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I need someone to break down how much this outfit cost because his shame needs to be quantified.

The shoes were $399. The other items look like they're from a cheap Etsy shop.
- The hat will likely be around $80 if he got it off Etsy instead of from a street vendor. Less than $60 total for the shirt and shorts unless he's been entirely ripped off or those shorts are much nicer than they look. So probably about $540 would be my guess before the tattoo sleeve. That cost anywhere from $600 if he got it done in his friend's garage and got an infection to several thousand bucks if he went to a really expensive artist. I have no guess for that.
- Clothes were probably inexpensive for this professional cosplayer to make
Not a whole lot because they're all child sizes. Not a lot of material required.