Sad it's coming to this, but the flag pin was at one point or another leading to this kind of stuff. I wish this would have just led to bigger and bigger pins to show that people are more patriotic than their opponent.
Nationalism leads to cult of personality. Cult of personality leads to... ah shit I can't remember. Fashion I think?
I'm a little surprised he had his jowls and pig cheeks so aptly cast and I'm not surprised in the least every Republican will throw their American flags in whatever trash can he points to to suck his weird mushroom dick while wearing his ugly fucking face.
Had someone brag about one of these hideous things at work, shortly after election. He was so excited to show it off. Haven't seen him or his ugly gold lump since then.
Definitely not concerning to put a persona above the country. If only there was a term for an exaggerated form of admiration and reverence directed towards a political leader, often cultivated through propaganda and media manipulation.
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
If this was a Dem the crazies on the right would be frothing at the mouths screaming about "the mark of the beast" or whatever....well they're frothing at the mouth either way.
Just the fact that I saw this, and it surprised me not at all, is a huge red flag. I totally understand that it's been (at least mostly) disproven, and it was likely just one asshat in his cabinet doing it for the sake of making sure their nose was lodged just as far as humanly possible into Trump's ass.
I would, just once, like to see something like this and be able to assume it's from the onion. Instead, every time I see something like this, I have to check, because as ridiculous as it is, it's well within the new standard for POTUS.
Soon people outside the cabinet will be required to wear them. All the gov agencies, public servants, ultimately military, etc.
No pin, no "due process".
Pretty certain that any leader of the marine core will be required to wear the Trump pin, and the new loyalty mandate becomes: Unit, Trump, core, god, country.
The is this scene in the wire where a criminal informant (who is a drug addict) acts as if he sells hats to a group of higher up drug dealers a way to tell the cops about their identity. During this interaction he only puts the red hat on the important people while they are being photographed from afar so he can later tell the cops about their names and position. Smart Trump doesn't need a hostile informant to help the cops.
These pins will later help the justice system identify his friends.
Back in the 90's I saw a bunch of apocalypse foretelling videos that said a golden haired devil would be the ultimate sign and that he would have his followers wear his symbol. It's really all coming together.
Even the Egypt stuff with the underground chambers. Next they'll find something breathtaking under the sphinx's right paw and they'll also learn how to read the data in the crystal skulls, but it will all be too late.
Someone come up with a trump disloyalty pin. I will wear one. How about his profile in baby shit brown behind bars with the caption "Working on it felon 47".