SCB,

This is literally turn-of-the-20th-century huckster bullshit lol

How do his people fall for this

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, my sweet summer child…

EatYouWell,

I mean, just look at religion. People are stupid.

Pratai,

His entire voting base are ignorant hicks.

SCB,

They aren’t though. He won 51% of the white, college-educated vote.

Those are the people falling for this, somehow.

geekworking,

There’s a new sucker born every minute.

NounsAndWords,

We can start calling it the Surrender Suit.

sailingbythelee,

Exactly.

“I don’t like losers. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Jah348,

Im not even mad. I wish I had idiots who would buy scraps of my suit for 5k a peice.

Hyperreality,

Selling relics. "Not a cult."

kubica,
kubica avatar

I wonder how many suits could be made with all the sold pieces.

Telorand,

12 baskets full

givesomefucks,

Out of the regular suit?

Because there’s no way he’ll stop selling pieces claiming it came from that suit. I’d be surprised if any are honestly, I bet Rudy (or some other idiot) found a bag of scraps at a tailorshop and that’s what they’re selling.

TechyDad,
@TechyDad@lemmy.world avatar

Given Trump’s penchant for grifting and fraud, I’m wondering if he kept the suit, had someone buy a series of similar looking suits as cheaply as possible, and then cut those up to sell. Why would he care if the hunk of fabric that he SAID came from his suit actually came from some thrift store find?

Syndic,

I’m mostly wondering how long it takes until he sells his piss or bath water.

Asafum,

Why would he even have to cut a suit. Knowing this fraud piece of shit, he probably just sourced the cheapest fabric that looks like the fabric of his suit and sells chunks of fabric that was never part of anything.

He truly does love America because a not insignificant portion of the population are absolutely dumb as bricks and will gleefully join a cult that fleeces them.

TheRealLinga,

When he dies are his family going to auction off vacuum-sealed discs of his remains?

HerbalGamer,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

I hope they start before he dies.

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

I wonder when the idiots he preys on run out of money.

riodoro1,

Never. They live off of our rent.

nucleative,

Amazingly, a new sucker is born every day. It will never happen.

unreasonabro,

Trump’s happy retirement, long dreamed of, where no one expects him to be anything but a grifter.

banneryear1868,

The ones who argued his public mugshot would lose him supporters were idiots. Always got my comments buried for saying rhat and how the first thing he’d do was market his mugshot and exploit it for his political brand yet here we are.

odelik,

I remeber you.

I knew you were right. I downvoted you because I didn’t want you to be right. It was a Farnsworth “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore!” downvote. I do not apologize.

flathead,

I do not apologize.

upvoted for the defiance

elbarto777,

I actually got to think that way and was surprised that he’s unashamedly using his mugshot to his benefit.

But I don’t care. That mugshot is a delight to see. A US president’s mugshot? A corrupt one? I’m loving it!

Blank,

Yeah, that’s just not how cults work. Especially when the idol is supposedly “counter culture” due to the “deep state” having it out for them.

The more you (deservedly) vilify him, the harder the zealots chant.

banneryear1868,

It’s the same as in 2016 how Trump supporters would share clips and compilations of reactions to him from liberal media personalities, and how Hillary invented the “deplorable” slogan for them. His political brand was built by reactions to him largely from liberal media.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
be_excellent_to_each_other avatar

“I wish I looked as good as I do on those cards, that I can tell you,” the former president says in the video.

“They give me muscles where, believe me, I don’t have them.”

Hey look, he actually can tell the truth.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, one more thing that comes to mind every time I see donnie diapers hawking his stupid wares to slack-jawed yokels. I’m reminded of “Bob”. It’s like someone took some of the satire of the Church of the Subgenius and made it a real thing. To wit, here are some famous quotes from “Bob”:

Make them pay as much as they think they can afford.

You won’t appreciate it if you don’t pay for it.

You’d PAY to know what you REALLY think.

I don’t practice what I preach because I’m not the kind of person I’m preaching to!

Act like a dumbshit and they’ll treat you like an equal.

Don’t just eat that hamburger, eat the HELL out of it!

Everyone here is stupid.

You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even dumber than THAT.

I always lie . . . and I’m always right.

I mean, all of the CotS was about making fun of cults and religion, but…donnie’s cult looks not that much different, except w/o any satire and without any humor. Especially when you add in the Qtarded stuff. Q reads like someone who tapped into CotS (or the Illuminatus Trilogy, etc.) and just did not get the joke, much like idiots that thought the Colbert Report was actually done to support right wingers…

FauxPseudo,
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world avatar

“Bob” has Slack. Trump has delusions of adequacy. They are not the same.

CitizenKong,

I read the Illuminatus trilogy when I was 23 (yeah I know) and for about 50 pages I almost believed it. Then I read the rest of the book and quickly realized it was satire (the golden submarine and Nazi Zombies are pretty big clues).

Fisk400,

When people start trying to figure out what part they got they will find out they all got a piece with no seams and the collective area is 3 standard rolls of suit fabric.

digeridoo,

Grifters going to grift… Can we stop fucking around and put this dude and his cronies behind bars. Common people see it, but he just keeps getting preferential treatment.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

I laugh a bit every time I think of some teabagger dumbass falling for donnie’s “never surrender” nonsense when it’s an actual picture of him surrendering.

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t call it surrendered until he’s actually in jail with no bond. At this point he could still very well find a way out of the country if he’s even convicted.

And judging by the shit show the courts have allowed thus far, I’m sadly not holding my breath.

Facebones,

Unfortunately I think it’s the government flirting around a possibility they know is very real because we saw it once -

You lock up Trump and the justice department will come under siege immediately by his voters, and you either let them win and they win, or you use violence against the violence against the government and they win (because self defense is tyranny to them.)

ThatWeirdGuy1001, (edited )
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

I mean the govt has been known to use the military against civilian protests.

Don’t remember which president it was but he ordered the army* to open fire on civilians protesting on the white house lawn. Also police bombing buildings. It’s funny when fellow Americans act like we don’t live in a country where the govt will actively kill you if you go against their wishes enough.

*I don’t remember if it was the army or the national guard

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, point taken. He’s not properly locked up like he should be. I’m just saying the mugshot is taken during his literal surrender - the fourth time he did this year, by the way. But he tells his idiot base “never surrender” and sells them pics…of actual evidence of his surrender. It’s beyond idiotic.

I hope everyone that bought such a t-shirt, mug, etc…is reminded that their little memorabilia is a replica of his surrender.

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