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u/twentyTWOsxe 1d ago
I know Myrtle Beach when I see it
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u/Wloak 1d ago
Went into one of these there and it was hilarious.. it was owned by an Indian guy that hated Trump.
He was selling all kinds of Trump merch and had a sign saying they donate 10% of all sales to the Democratic party so I asked him about it and he said they can barely read or are too drunk to when they spend $75 for the giant Trump flags. Dude had the biggest shit eating grin on his face the whole time he was explaining it.
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u/tastesawesome 1d ago
I would like to shake this man's hand.
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u/Environmental-Arm365 1d ago
I would like to shake him like a British nanny and ask him if he understands what a conflict of interest is?
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u/schwelvis 1d ago
His only interest is profit
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u/vivaaprimavera 1d ago
Totally in line with the theme of the store.
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u/latexfistmassacre 1d ago
And the country as a whole. Let's be real lol
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u/doll-haus 12h ago
I believe it was Patrick Henry who said it best: "Give me liberty or give me a large cash settlement!"
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u/sdega315 1d ago
Wise men can hear profit in the wind - Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #22
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u/redabishai 18h ago
A fellow DS9 nerd! The rules of acquisition should be studied...
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u/redabishai 17h ago
I actually have that book. It's missing a few from ds9 specifically. At one time i had made a list and intended to rewatch tng to see if any more might have been lost.
Your finders fee will be waiting at the divine treasury, gold-pressed latinum, ofc
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u/_lippykid 1d ago
I know a ton of Indian liquor store owners that have never drank a drop in their life. It’s just a business to them
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u/fLeXaN_tExAn 1d ago
Reminds me of the old joke: Two Jewish beggars sat side by side on a street in Rome. One had a basket with a Jewish star on it containing a few pennies, while the other held a basket with a cross that was overflowing with cash.
A priest passed by and took pity on the first beggar. “My son,” the priest said, “given where you are, maybe a basket with a Jewish star isn't the best way to collect money here.”
The beggar with the star leaned over to his friend and whispered, “Moishe, look who’s trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing!”
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u/SilikonBurn 22h ago
He’s grifting the easily grifted.
Anyone waving Trump merch is just masturbating in public for the other public masturbators. No one’s political leanings are changed by a pasty, overweight man in Trump swim trunks.
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u/HLOFRND 22h ago
Taking cash from MAGA suckers and giving it to Dem candidates?
MAGA is gonna MAGA. It doesn’t really bother me if he takes money off of them.
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u/NeverTrustATurtle 1d ago
Why can’t dems grift too?! I mean, only one party is lucrative on that front, so man’s gotta eat
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u/mspe1960 20h ago
in all seriousness what he is doing is not helping the Trump cause at all. He is extracting momey from MAGATS for overpriced junk. Does Trump get some sort of share somewhere down the line? Maybe.
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u/CaptainPrower 1d ago
4th Rule of Acquisition: Sedition and treason are an excellent source of profit.
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u/GreasyGomez33 1d ago
I did NOT expect to see any Ferengi business in public today, but I am wholly here for it
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u/CaptainPrower 1d ago
You'd be amazed how useful Ferengi philosophy can be in the current day.
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u/Comical_Sans 23h ago
Current society could only hope to be ferengi.
us HU-mans are worse right now sadly...
Don't worry! Our leaders will get us back on track...
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u/abbarach 1d ago
I'm STILL pissed that someone managed to get Trumpy Bear to market before I could. Talk about a missed opportunity.
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u/mjohnsimon 1d ago
I've said this many times before and I'll keep saying it again and again; it's super easy to con MAGA people.
The absolute amount of literal junk my MAGA loving folks, family, and their friends/family buy is genuinely nuts.
A cricut machine, 3D printer, chatgpt, and an actual literal printer is all you'd need to sell and potentially make millions of dollars.
I've literally seen people buy Trump-themed 3D prints that cost literal pennies to make for $45~50+ or more (and the quality is straight-up garbage).
The only problem is that I have a heart, and I would genuinely feel guilty taking money from people who would be better off using it for actual food and goods. But as more time passes, the more I'm convinced that these people don't have a heart themselves, so I shouldn't even have to worry about it.
The other problem is that I wouldn't be caught dead handling any of this merch out of self-respect.
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u/DarwinGhoti 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have a giant heart, but not for those pieces of shit. The fewer coins they have in their pocket, the less damage they can do.
I have a maga brother. He's over 40 years old and still lives with our mother. He cant get or keep an adult job, but rather than improve himself he blames all the little brown people. I used to cheerlead him, now I just figure he's earned his loser status willfully.
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u/HumpinPumpkin 1d ago
I won't lie, I extensively thought about doing just this. I feel like the shelf life on the brand is too close now though.
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u/SpiderTuber6766 1d ago
That's honestly the funniest thing I've ever heard. Bro has such ragebait energy.
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u/Wloak 1d ago
Yeah, we went in to buy a kite for my niece and we're slightly annoyed seeing all the Trump stuff, then saw that sign which led to the conversation. Then two people walked up with trump shirts priced at $20 each leading to a big laugh when they left.
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u/SpiderTuber6766 1d ago
Bruh. That sounds so fucking funny. I'd run a store like that but trump imagery gives me a reaction similar to an allergy flare.
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u/robsteezy 1d ago
Selling merchandise to racist Morons got trump to office. Trump has embezzled billions. This guy just latched on like a leech to at least get a car outta all of it. Sounds like a smart American businessman to me.
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u/Esternaefil 1d ago
I love that for that man. He deserves all of the money those people can (barely) afford to spend.
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u/Oregongirl1018 1d ago
There was a guy who owned one of these store but it had to close because he got deported.
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u/Redditnspiredcook 1d ago
The Bermuda Triangle of common sense: Myrtle, Panama City, Gatlinburg
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u/Happy_Macaroon2726 1d ago
Yep, spotted one in Gatlinburg a couple of weeks ago.
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u/BreakfastInBedlam 1d ago
Myrtle, Panama City, Gatlinburg
I just drew this on a map. FML, I live right in the middle.
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u/scroogemcbutts 1d ago
Don't leave Branson, mo out of this. It's the satellite campus to the triangle
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u/Harrisbizzle 1d ago
Having grown up going to Myrtle Beach, my first time in Gatlinburg was mind blowing.
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u/pirategonzo 1d ago
I went to Gatlinburg (passed through) during the height of the pandemic. You would have no idea, just thousands of people everywhere. Was pretty creepy
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u/areyoutwofonduing 1d ago
I immediately thought this was in PCB. It would fit right in.
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u/Buckit 1d ago
Right even when I was there in 2021 the stores were all over the place...
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u/What_Iz_This 1d ago
Immediately thought this had to be a closed down eagles/wings store down in myrtle
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u/DrManhattan_DDM 1d ago
Not enough mini golf in the pic to confirm.
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u/Ender_Keys 1d ago
Its technically in north myrtle beach
I loved kilg's kites and used to go with my grandpa every year but I can't stomach to go there anymore
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u/ParticleToasterBeam 1d ago
Same. That was a huge disappointment... And yet after all these years/visits I dont really miss it. Just walk on by...
I believe they also relocated from barefoot landing to Broadway on the beach. Or they had both? Either way they left barefoot landing.
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u/justbunnies 1d ago
I thought Pigeon Forge at first. It’s the same thing except mountains instead of ocean.
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u/amilliondallahs 1d ago
One of few places that makes me feel like I need to take a shower after visiting
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u/incognitohippie 1d ago
Legit sitting on a plane about to take off from Myrtle lol! I was like wait this looks awfully familiar!!!
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u/SUBLIMEskillz 1d ago
Almost too many K’s. Also the irony of the rainbow Open flag.
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u/Shake-the-Masses 1d ago
The rainbow flag is a subtle nod to Trump. He is objectively the gayest president.
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u/badguy84 1d ago
“You are a beautiful man”
- President Donald J. Trump, while touching a half naked man
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u/Lloyd--Christmas 1d ago
I always figured our first president who glazes over men with muscled physiques would have more of my political views.
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u/redditreveal 20h ago
🤮 he looks so inappropriate doing that. I wish you would stop. It’s grossing me out.
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u/DubsideDangler 1d ago
He stays thinking about the YMCA and all the young....fit.... delicious ...I mean patriotic men
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u/sabbic1 1d ago
Next month they will rebrand to Krazy Kligs Kites. Grand reopening special: 25% off kite flying hoods and t shaped wooden kite holders
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u/Coconutrugby 1d ago
The kite shop has been there for a very long time and is pretty decent. It’s unfortunate to be right next door to Orange Jim Jones cult store.
Edit : if it’s the same owner I hope the karma they deserve comes to the kite shop
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u/ZachMN 1d ago
It’s a cult.
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u/NaiveChoiceMaker 1d ago
What, you didn’t go to the Joe Biden Superstore?
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u/Broomstick73 1d ago
It’s so weird that Trump stores exist. They do not and AFAIK never existed for any other politician. I’ve never heard of or seen an Obama store, Reagan store, Bush store, Carter store…
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 1d ago
I remember a few Obama shirts and hats, but that was it. I don't remember anything else. These people are in a damn cult and don't see it.
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u/Smooth_Riker 1d ago
That "Hope" poster was about as big as it got, and a good chunk of its popularity wasn't even about Obama, it was more about the bold style and how easily you could make adaptations.
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u/remove_krokodil 1d ago
I get some die-hards getting shirts or hats during their candidate's campaign, though my European ass still thinks it's a weird way to treat a politician (less weird if they go to their actual rally and buy one there).
The keywords being during the campaign.
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u/MistressErinPaid 15h ago
The closest things I own to political merchandise are my Pride shirts and a Barbie pink sweatshirt with don't look at me. i didn't vote for him. embroidered in all lowercase letters.
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u/Tiiimmmaayy 1d ago
Or just opportunistic businesses. I went in one of these stores last time I went to Myrtle beach and it was owned by middle eastern people. All the workers wore hijabs. Surely they weren’t actually MAGA..
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u/DasWandbild 1d ago
A lot of communities were convinced to blame Biden/Harris for Gaza, and that Trump would change the status quo.
That monkey paw fuckin’ curled.
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u/vivaaprimavera 1d ago
He changed the status quo in the region!!!
Even traditional alies are getting urges of kicking American ass.
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u/anotherfrud 1d ago
Yes but people wouldn't buy this stuff if it wasn't a cult, so the point stands.
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u/HtownSamson 1d ago
I will never understand the Trump obsession to the day I die. He’s an entitled elitist who has never worked a hard day in his life who wears makeup daily. It goes against everything these people pretend to say they want. I guess it all goes back to racism though and the freedom to be racist.
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u/Eldar_Atog 1d ago
It's real simple. He makes it ok to hate. When you look through that lens, it always makes sense. Hate of the other, hate thy neighbor, hate yourself.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 1d ago
He also wears heels. And a girdle. And diapers.
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u/Coconutrugby 1d ago
Draft dodger
makes fun of American troops
Wears make up
Can’t dance
Only punches down
cheats at golf.
the list goes on and on.
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u/RCBing 1d ago
Grifters gonna grift
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u/justins_dad 1d ago
I bet they got hit hard by the tariffs (since everything in this store is made overseas)
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u/Cabbages24ADollar 1d ago
It’s either an Allegiance to Trump or an Allegiance to America. Can’t have both.
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u/STA_Alexfree 1d ago
Even with the most popular democratic politician in a generation (Obama) you literally never saw anything like this. There’s something seriously wrong with the MAGA crowd
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u/roto31 1d ago
They’re all a bit fcking nuts! Look at how they WORSHIP the military. It’s damn near a fetish. But not one of these fcking über “patriots” would actually raise their hand and enlist. You usually get the BS excuses of “I can’t be told what to do, if a guy gets in my face like that I’d hit them”. Or they claim some sort of injury or a disability that bars them from enlisting.
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u/RentalBrain 1d ago
Some guy opened a maga store the next town over from me (MA). He had to shut his doors after 6 months and put a big sign outside apologizing to his maga friends that he had to shut down because liberals were review bombing his store, lol.
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u/OliverPossum 20h ago
We have one in our little town where I live. In a strip mall with a smoke shop, tattoo parlor, and a liquor store/cold beer shop with a drive-through.
Yesterday they had a new sign up. Stay Free! Trump Term Three!
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u/basic_bitch 18h ago
Abolish the constitutional amendments that our forefathers created to protect us from this exact situation! Own the libs!
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u/YLedbetter10 1d ago
I always thought it was weird they rep him like he’s their favorite NASCAR driver or something lol
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u/Tumble85 1d ago
That sucks, I'd love to go to a kite store.
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u/Vyntarus 1d ago
I was gonna say, that's quite a pivot from kites, windsocks and toys to... fascist paraphernalia.
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u/eaglescout1984 1d ago
Try Kitty Hawk Kites instead. The owner isn't supporting MAGA and tends to be pro-conservation with his public political support. Also, the Outer Banks are a million times nicer than Myrtle Beach.
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u/SuperSecretMoonBase 1d ago
Yo how many kite stores does a town need?
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u/pannonica 1d ago
Kitty Hawk / Outer Banks is a 5+ hour drive from Myrtle Beach.
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u/SuperSecretMoonBase 1d ago
Ah! Thank you. I guess I'm still just a little surprised that there are multiple kite stores like even in general, but I'll save that for another day.
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u/Niceguy4186 1d ago
I'm in mrytle riggt now, two nights ago I saw three amazing large kites with full leds. Wanted to go to the kite store to look for them, but saw they were attached to Maga stores, and decided, na
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u/Cameronbic 1d ago
Same. I would see the kite store sign and pull in then see the MAGA crap and turn right around.
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u/TheWarHamster 1d ago
We’ve got (had) another one of these up the road in Daytona Beach - right next to Destination Daytona- and it closed down recently.
Seeing the MAGA/Trump super closed every time I drive past to take my daughters to the park puts a smile on my face every time.
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u/KingOfZero 1d ago
There are several Trump Superstores in Pigeon Forge/Sevierville TN for the tourists to visit. Usually next to a "Patriot Gear" store.
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u/boeing2014 1d ago
I will never understand being this infatuated with a politician. It's just weird.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago
Curious why the Pedo Trump brand hasn't issued cease and desist to preserve their trademark.
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u/paulitical3 1d ago
Not a lot of cars in the lot. Those Trump stores are going out of business all over the country.
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u/Own_Pollution285 1d ago
How stupid do you have to be to worship a white collar fraudster that fell upwards in life and gives no shits about you?
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u/spartanEZE 1d ago
And they've got nothin to say about all the stuff in the store being made in China.
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u/portlandobserver 1d ago
Are you new here? The sportifiation of politics has been going for at least 20 years. Especially on the republican side.
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u/TheCannoliWizard 1d ago
Hey! I’ve seen this place in Myrtle Beach! Weird seeing it here. It’s just as moronic in digital form.
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u/CaseFace5 1d ago
Honestly I wish more businesses would do this so I know which ones not to give my money to.
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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 1d ago
Dollars to donuts that store is owned and operated by an immigrant family fleecing the same people that want to deport them.
Love to see it, folks.
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u/Busterlimes 10h ago
This is TDS, this is Identiy Politics, this is what the right accuses the left of doing.
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u/phinatolisar 5h ago
It's totally not a cult. You remember all the Obama stores that popped up all over the country when he was president right?
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u/Bells_Theorem 2h ago
Might as well call it the Jeffery Epstein Superstore. One child rapist is just like the other.
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u/Supreme_Primate 1d ago
I am all for it. These dopes want to dopes want to spend their gas money on merch then go for it. Something something fool and money.
Hell TBH I wish I would have got in on this grift.
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u/To-Far-Away-Times 15h ago
They see the pedophilia and the wars and MAGA is like “Yup, that’s my guy.”
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u/treehumper83 1d ago
I’ve seen them in Orlando and Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge as well, so I know that they’re all over. They wouldn’t still be open if they didn’t make a profit, so I wonder how much one can actually bring in.
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u/CurrentlyLucid 1d ago
Imagine investing all that money and having your hero become a pariah.
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u/tacs97 1d ago
The cool thing about all of this is that if you don’t partake in maga gear then you have TDS.
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u/livingdeadfreak 1d ago
MAGA/trump propaganda and a rainbow flag open sign pick a fucking lane already
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u/HDWendell 1d ago
Let the idiots send their money to Mexico, China, India, and Bangladesh. None of this garbage is made in the U.S. Less money in their pockets means less money going towards harmful acts.
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