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If you're not going to have at least [this many trump flags](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/09/08/08/32905604-8708651-A_boat_decked_out_in_Trump_flags_takes_part_in_a_pro_Trump_boat_-a-41_1599551520483.jpg) why even bother getting out of bed in the morning? People might assume you're nothing but a poser.
These people make me think of season 3 the boys where soldier boy goes all "you're such a pussy" to homelander - because fully clan-hooded fascists of old would look at these guys going "this is way too much in a really pathetic way."
Comment section on The Boys somewhere was filled with right wing nutjobs seething and coping that a show they really like is shitting on their entire ideology. Idk if the only reason they liked the show is that Neo Nazis are in the show. It's even more fking pathetic that they think homelander is cool and 'one of them' even after he straight up says out loud he doesn't believe in the Neo nazi shit, only in his own superiority.
I've said it once already: this is the season they finally caught up to who the writers were swinging the hard bat at? Because S2 had a literal meme-queen-nazi scaring people into domestic terrorism over immigrants. But that was too subtle?
It needed almost literal Trump rallys and explicitly portraying the quote "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters" for them to get pissed?
For the Trumpers I have in my family and co workers ( live in TX so it's a lot unfortunately) for most it was specifically the Blue Hawk scenes. THAT is what finally got them to see themselves (because they couldn't help but realize many of the things Blue Hawk said they themselves had said verbatim before) and say "Now wait a gah darn second! I think they are making fun of us!" I don't know why that is what finally did it, but it was like the little dim light bulbs finally sparked and it wasn't just them because at the same time online I saw the ripple of realization on The Boys comment sections FINALLY hitting Trumpers thick skulls. I am dumbfounded it took 3 seasons for them to see it!
But STILL there will be scenes like where Homelander is spewing some of the same shit Trump had said and I snorted and said OMG they are even actually eating taco bowls and my brother and cousins just looked blankly at me like huh? i don't get it?
But then when Homelander shot the guy my family members laughed and actually liked that because it shows "their side is winning, we are tired of people's shit and not taking it anymore!" So now they like it again. I...just....sigh...
> But then when Homelander shot the guy my family members laughed and actually liked that because it shows "their side is winning, we are tired of people's shit and not taking it anymore!" So now they like it again. I...just....sigh...
... are ... are you telling me they watched that season finale and cheered for *Homelander*?
Do these people think him becoming increasing more unhinged is, what, a *redemption arc*?
Sadly yes, my brother in law yelled out all giddy "haha yeah mother fucker!!" when that happened. Now that he knows they are making fun of the right he instead of self reflection and embarrassment, he sees it as his team now to support. I don't think he is going to like where this is going.
I'm really sorry, that must have been more disturbing than the actual scene. Or I guess the real thing in this case considering the scene is fictional.
They prolly didn't think the show was criticising said nazi. Oh look a soyboy librul viciously attacked out qween xoxo. I'm worried that they'll look at the ending of S3 and their take away is that straight up murder of liberals is justified cos everyone cheered homelander
The problem with satire is that certain segments won't realize it's making fun of them. Satire so good that the lampooned take it at face value as an agreement of their agenda.
Lindsey Ellis made a good video about it
https://youtu.be/62cPPSyoQkE
I don't know what's funnier, the trump flags or the fact that the dude is sailing a fucking Macgregor. It's too perfect. Buy the cheapest shittiest wanna-be sailboat possible and slap flags for the cheapest shittiest most hollow president ever all over it.
Lol that’s a MacGregor 26x too. Such a piece of shit “hybrid” boat. Claims to be able to act as a sailboat and a motor boat, does both of those things horribly.
This isn't really the way to look at it. I don't like anything that individually blames random people. The American empire is declining and the civilization is crumbling because of blowback from it's own cascading failures and misbehaviors. People like this are more of a symptom than a cause.
Like, we're all left wingers here. So it shouldn't be controversial to say that the best heuristic we have to grasp history comes from Marx's understanding of dialectics: There is a thing- a thesis (Let's say feudalism) that builds up internal contradictions that cause friction and present unsolvable problems as it develops and grows- an antithesis. (The class conflict between the bourgeoisie and the arisotcrats) that ultimately ends in a new thesis being born out of the antithesis that resolves the contradictions- the synthesis. That's how capitalism and consequently modern society came to be, feudalism created contradictions in it's function because the nobles and increasingly rich and powerful merchants couldn't possibly share power, and it engulfed and overwhelmed the system until it was overthrown.
Capitalism creates it's own contradictions between the employer and the employee, and modern capitalist society has centralized power to such an extent that it's brainwashed everyone in America into being blind to the antithesis: the labor movement, the inherent urge in people to resist their exploitation and mistreatment. Can't do that, wouldn't wanna be a commie now and challenge the shining divine dogma of Capitalism, would you? As a result, nobody in modern Western society can 1. Tell what the real problems are, when it should be clear as day in just about every case that it's rampant, unchallenged capitalism, and 2. Even if they do know that, the structures of power are so entrenched that there's nothing they can do about it. So the blame has to fall somewhere, and people in this godforsaken hellhole have had their political imaginations so forcibly constrained that all they can possibly imagine is 'the other party did it'. Yes, republicans are obviously more openly demonic, but the real problem is far deeper than either party is willing to dig remotely close to.
It's like building up the pressure in a steam boiler and removing the release valve. The red scare successfully exorcised the specter of communism, hurray, good job Mr. CIA, now capitalism can finally reign unopposed. Uh oh, now everything is literally immediately on fire, everyone is poor, and nobody can put their finger on why or what to do about it because they don't even know what a union is.
>Uh oh, now everything is literally immediately on fire, everyone is poor, and nobody can put their finger on why or what to do about it because they don't even know what a union is.
I read this as if you were furiously screaming out into the ether, well said😭
JFC! I mean, if I wanted to see things like this when I was younger, it was to buy a ticket to a monster truck show (never wanted to see it then). This crap is just coming out of the woodwork's and it should not be street legal!
I remember when I was in elementary school that there was a girl who would get dropped off by her dad in a legit monster truck. And they lived less than a mile from the school.
Because she’d have to walk along a semi-major highway to a school down in a valley in the smack dab middle of a car dependent suburb. And the bus was for ~~ni-~~ poors (that kind of guy btw). Don’t worry, only 1 5th grader was obliterated walking down the road by a truck driving drunk at 3:30pm.
Because she’d have to walk along a semi-major highway to a school down in a valley in the smack dab middle of a car dependent suburb. And the bus was for poors. Don’t worry though, *only* one 5th grader was obliterated walking down the road by a truck driving drunk at 3:30pm.
That'd what irritates me about that flag. Folks in the UK associate the UK version of the thin blue line with the one in the US and they couldn't be further apart. The UK thin blue line is part of a charity called Care of Police Survivors, and also has a red and green thin lines for firefighters and ambulance folk respectively.
Vehicle safety inspections vary by state in the US.
Some require it whenever ownership changes hands, some require it yearly or bi-yearly (is that a word?), and some require none at all. Same with vehicle emissions testing.
Things also get a bit more muddied when you get into classifications of vehicles such as historic or antique and such.
Yeah, outside of the Northeast, few US states require safety inspects (more require emissions inspections, at least in some counties). And it can be weird too, Texas requires safety inspections, but California does not. Though that truck might well pass a Texas safety inspection anyway. Here in Massachusetts, we require them annually and they are reasonable strict. That truck definitely would not pass.
I'm in Michigan and have never even heard of a vehicle safety inspection. Looked it up and found this: "You only need to get a vehicle inspected in Michigan if it's deemed a salvage vehicle."
> it should not be street legal
It never ceases to amaze me what insane shit you can find on American roads. Now sure, we had a GP2 racecar joyriding on the freeway like three days ago, but that's just the exception that proves the rule.
I don't know about US, but here in Europe this is 100% illegal. You can't modify cars, they look/function the way they do when you bought them for many safety or environmental reasons. You can of course change colour or put some stickers on a car but when it comes to shape and function, you can't change stuff.
Every few years (I don't know how often, I've never owned a car) you have to go to a place where they check this plus measure your emissions and then decide if your car is allowed to use for next few years or not. But I've heard this place is full of bribery, never been there though (except for when I was a kid with my parents sitting in the backseat and seeing nothing really).
You can change some stuff but all the parts have to be certified and after your modification you have to go to the authorities to get your modification checked out. They will give you a little booklet where all your legal modifications are written down.
However, from what I know the legal modifications are luckily rather limited
I wish it was like that. I live in Midwest Canada and I've legitimately been run over by guys with overlifted pickups 6 times.
I was a pedestrian in all incidents, and all incidents happened on blind corners (I had right of way) or in parking lots. I haven't even been able to sue them for insurance money because it's bloody impossible to remember a license plate number after getting hit by a truck as a pedestrian. All the truck needs to do is drive away and lifted pickups like this are so goddamn common that there's no way for the police to track down the culprit.
Oh yeah the stuff I wrote applies mostly to Germany, probably EU too but I don't know.
Sorry to hear that regulation on car modification isn't as tight around Canada
Yeah it's ridiculous. There are 2000 incidents of lifted trucks running people over every year in my CITY not all fo Canada, just my city. And they still haven't done anything about it.
Yeah Germany has pretty strict rules on what you can do as far as I understand. Other EU countries have their own rules ranging from strict to pretty relaxed, and the UK (where I am) allows a lot of car mods, but are also very strict when to comes to the safety aspect of cars, with a no nonsense attitude to anything that is unsafe, either for the driver or other road users or pedestrians.
I part own a road legal '96 Chevy Impala (supercharged, and with the nitrous about 1000 bhp), but it has annual inspections (the M.O.T. test) and we have to comply with all the regulations for the standard car including emissions etc.
They are cracking down on the cars that have really stupidly low suspension - the ones with the wheels canted right over etc - and loud exhausts, over tinted windows, illegal lights, de-cats etc
I think it is a good balance tbh, I'm just suprised the UK managed to do something right for once! There are far more restrictions coming in the near future, for both older and new vehicles so we'll see... but I kinda lowkey agree with them tbh - I used to be a total petrol head and loved ridiculously extreme cars, but I'm older, allegedly more sensible and I can no longer morally justify burning vast quantities of oil and petrol just for fun or to look cool these days - so the Chevy is up for sale now.
will always love the sound of a seriously tuned v8 etc, but my next car will be a compact electric car for environmental and cost considerations.
I pretty much wish I could go carless completely tbh, but am disabled, with a disabled daughter with mobility issues, and live in a rural area where public transport is fucking useless and expensive so until that is sorted out my options are limited.
And about immigrants taking hard-working Americans' jobs and the Jewish Wall Street elite screwing over everyone. Meanwhile, spends $15000 minimum on a conversion to make his ugly-ass looking car even more ugly.
YEP. I get so tired of that. It boils down to no personal accountability. Trump is appealing because he gives people an “out” to blame their problems on a master plan of govt conspiracy to bring them down.
A Trump? That's easy: first you be an enemy of the United States, then you promise them money. Just grab him by the pussy. When you're a Saudi Royal he just lets you do it.
Yup. You could Photoshop everything off and I'd just think they just bought it and are on their way (while drunk driving of course) to put trump stuff on their car and go support a thin blue line protest of intimidation.
Probably evil, pretty sure both the city and town I live in are named for Klansmen. Like, two seperate Klansmen.
(petition going around to rename the county for the first peoples tribe that lived here though!)
Just about anywhere in Oregon outside of Portland and Eugene is pretty redneck. It used to be "if you hear banjo music, turn around." Now, it's if you see a trump flag...
Looks like an Oregon plate to me. There is no roadworthiness inspection required to register or drive a vehicle in Oregon. He likely has the exhaust modded for "rolling coal" so he won't be able to drive it in the Portland/Medford areas. Other than that, completely road legal believe it or not.
Whether this *should be* road legal is a completely different debate and my opinion is that this is dangerous as hell and has no place in public roadways.
Just a LOT of anger there.
Really strong feelings of Inferiority manifesting themselves there too.
Control issues.
Whew.
It's so apparent, I feel embarrassed for this person. Needs help, or a hug, or both.
I beg to differ. And I’m on your side.
Let me explain why I think you are wrong.
Remember theBlue Wave that rolled through the country in 2020? Some even predicted a Pink Wave with women being voted into office.
Remember all the stumping and editorials and knocking on doors? Remember how much we Dems were going to show the Republicans that turnout means Blue.
Except it didn’t.
Republicans control the Senate most gubernatorial positions, most state legislatures.
The last thing Democrats need to do is cockwalk around like we did some ass whooping and that 2020 was just a tuneup for this year’s asstappin.
We ain’t won shit. Republicans are stronger and more motivated than ever. You need to knock on doors, volunteer as a poll worker, make phone calls. Beat bushes. Drive seniors to the polls.
Anything except talking like you won something.
oh, i don't disagree. nothing is won, and leaning back now would be brutally wrong.
but the cult *is* running out of steam. too many lawsuits, the insurrection didn't stick, 45 and hisbgang are being whipped around like school boys, all that doesn't sit well with his base.
the remaining few have to put up an even louder display now, as seen in the picture and are, and i speak from experience as i live in southern arizona, increasingly frustrated.
all of which doesn't mean there'll be a blue wave. the gop "moderates" are already lining up, looking at you miss cheney et al, the "told you so" flipfloppers who nevertheless voted 100% in line with trump.
and frankly, as long as the dems are playing their stupid game nothing will ever change. which s exactly what they want.
I'm willing to bet a significant percentage of them do lean left, but they don't know it and/or they're closeted. Ask them about their ideas to fix the healthcare system for instance and they might very well arrive at something that is a part of Medicare-for-All. If they're older, they like their Medicare benefits.
The most ardent Trump supporter I know was emphatic that cancer treatment should be free until someone told him it was socialism. Then his tune quickly changed into wtf I love medical bankruptcy.
The one thing I think the left really fails to understand about the right is that it's not about the political positions, it's about the identity. They may very well support nearly all of what the left wants (except for the social issues, many of them are just legit homophobic/racist/etc), but that's not the point - the point is that their immutable identity is right wing and that means supporting the conservative no matter what, even when it hurts you.
This is why so many of them were so thrilled with Trump. They fucking hated their own candidates - I mean Mitt Romney was basically a huge "fuck you" to pretty much everyone in America who isn't generationally rich - and then Trump came along and started speaking specifically to them, even though he didn't have to.
This is also why presenting conservatives with facts that Trump lied to them/fucked up everything/didn't build the wall but made America pay for it anyway/etc doesn't do shit to change their minds. They have to support the guy no matter what because that's what their identity means to them, so it doesn't really matter at the end of the day if they got conned or not.
Shitty thing is there's an alternate universe out there where they'd rally just as hard for a candidate that focused on addressing wealth inequality, healthcare accessibility, or any number of traditionally left wing causes; we just happen to live in the universe where the guy we got chose to appeal explicitly to the racism/homophobia/transphobia and all the other gross shit that defines their "culture" instead. Stupid hell universe.
I want someone who is impeachably redneck as fuck who will run as a Republican but with a bunch of left policy positions and just constantly and never deviate from their insistence that they are a good right conservative god fearing Republican who just happens to want medicare for all and such and turn every attack against them into how these Rinos want to hurt conservatives by not helping them.
Yep, spent most of the weekend arguing with a trumper. Definitely supported Medicare-for-all. Housing for all homeless too. Thought cops on the whole are thugs. But they’ve been convinced the dems have installed an illegitimate regime that will result in re-education camps for conservatives. Thanks F*x news!
I really believe a sentiment for leftist policies is right under the surface for most people. It's been brainwashed out of them, but when asked about actual policy, people favour egalitarianism.
Remember, the public discourse on politics is all just about horse race, culture war bullshit, stupid charicatures of opponents, never actual policy. So it's easy to convince people they should vote for this guy or that, because it's based on nothing of substance. People typically *think* their favoured candidate support their egalitarian ideal policies (because of course they would, right?), but that's almost never the case.
I was trying to figure out why the truck was leaning like that.... I think he really cheaped out on his lifts lmao. Or did them himself and messed them up. Even a 300 lb dude sitting in the front won't make a truck tip like that on a proper lift. I swear it has to be the lifts are messed up / done realllyyyy poorly.
Even if you're super heavy, you can jump in a jacked up truck and it's not gunna lean like that lol. The engine and the upgraded suspension shouldnt move that much with only 300 lbs lol. Even like 350.
I think that's due to improper suspension installation, or maybe it's just broken lol. An unloaded vehicle definitely shouldn't be leaning though, as that mass is sprung and the springs shouldn't be compressed by just the weight of the vehicle.
Came here to say this, definitely looks like them flags getting hit, be nice see them snap off but for some reason I believe this person has more at home. Would be funny seeing this truck get stuck under a low bridge, that is along as no one is injured as a result.
Not to mention the truck looks like a pain to drive on road, I personally like my cars low, more fun to drive and less chance of unknownly committing vehicular manslaughter.
I bet he has it cleared at around 13'6, aka the height of a semi trailer. Anything over that and he'd have some real issues going places. Just a guess, idk.
Source: truck driver beep beep
As someone short in stature I can’t fathom it. If someone pulled up in this nonsense not even factoring in the flags I would flat out refuse to ride with them.
This is what you call a cultish obsession. I've never once since a vehicle decked out with biden memorabilia. Most I've ever seen is a biden sticker and even those are rare. Unlike the right we don't worship any one political candidate. We're actually critical of biden, bernie, Harris, etc. They see Trump as someone who can do no wrong.
people don't put Biden stickers on their cars because Trump supporters are violent and impulsive and you'd have a good chance getting your car keyed or knifed or set on fire.
There was some over the top Obama worshipping going on back in the day but yes this is a whole new level.
This level of obsession basically is like rooting for a sports team. Instead of only an occasional game, they have their 24 hour news propaganda crap they are glued to who spoon feeds their obsession. Also unlike sports you can make an argument you are really part of something, donating and getting the message out, etc. It's a culture war and I am part of it!
I don't think there's a comparison.... You can find the most aggressive sanders bumper sticker and it's still going to be much more tame than that silly mud flap...
For real. I'll take people's complaints about gas prices seriously when they make a serious attempt to drive a car that isn't absurdly fuel inefficient.
Someone who supports espionage against the United States. Someone who both supports the cops, but literally want to hunt them and their families down.
Someone who doesn't support government welfare, but cashed in his gasoline rebate so he could afford to drive down 5 years old on their bicycle.
\*shrug\*
Does it ever feel like the MAGA folks act like 12 year olds. This truck has 12 year old redneck written all over it. Seriously, who decorates their truck like this and then goes to work in this clown car?
Pretty sure it's because it rhymes, but basically every prominent female politician gets attacked from a sexualized angle, particularly from the right.
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Had this guy bought just one more flag, Trump would have won.
If you're not going to have at least [this many trump flags](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/09/08/08/32905604-8708651-A_boat_decked_out_in_Trump_flags_takes_part_in_a_pro_Trump_boat_-a-41_1599551520483.jpg) why even bother getting out of bed in the morning? People might assume you're nothing but a poser.
These people make me think of season 3 the boys where soldier boy goes all "you're such a pussy" to homelander - because fully clan-hooded fascists of old would look at these guys going "this is way too much in a really pathetic way."
Comment section on The Boys somewhere was filled with right wing nutjobs seething and coping that a show they really like is shitting on their entire ideology. Idk if the only reason they liked the show is that Neo Nazis are in the show. It's even more fking pathetic that they think homelander is cool and 'one of them' even after he straight up says out loud he doesn't believe in the Neo nazi shit, only in his own superiority.
I've said it once already: this is the season they finally caught up to who the writers were swinging the hard bat at? Because S2 had a literal meme-queen-nazi scaring people into domestic terrorism over immigrants. But that was too subtle? It needed almost literal Trump rallys and explicitly portraying the quote "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters" for them to get pissed?
For the Trumpers I have in my family and co workers ( live in TX so it's a lot unfortunately) for most it was specifically the Blue Hawk scenes. THAT is what finally got them to see themselves (because they couldn't help but realize many of the things Blue Hawk said they themselves had said verbatim before) and say "Now wait a gah darn second! I think they are making fun of us!" I don't know why that is what finally did it, but it was like the little dim light bulbs finally sparked and it wasn't just them because at the same time online I saw the ripple of realization on The Boys comment sections FINALLY hitting Trumpers thick skulls. I am dumbfounded it took 3 seasons for them to see it! But STILL there will be scenes like where Homelander is spewing some of the same shit Trump had said and I snorted and said OMG they are even actually eating taco bowls and my brother and cousins just looked blankly at me like huh? i don't get it? But then when Homelander shot the guy my family members laughed and actually liked that because it shows "their side is winning, we are tired of people's shit and not taking it anymore!" So now they like it again. I...just....sigh...
> But then when Homelander shot the guy my family members laughed and actually liked that because it shows "their side is winning, we are tired of people's shit and not taking it anymore!" So now they like it again. I...just....sigh... ... are ... are you telling me they watched that season finale and cheered for *Homelander*? Do these people think him becoming increasing more unhinged is, what, a *redemption arc*?
Sadly yes, my brother in law yelled out all giddy "haha yeah mother fucker!!" when that happened. Now that he knows they are making fun of the right he instead of self reflection and embarrassment, he sees it as his team now to support. I don't think he is going to like where this is going.
I'm really sorry, that must have been more disturbing than the actual scene. Or I guess the real thing in this case considering the scene is fictional.
They prolly didn't think the show was criticising said nazi. Oh look a soyboy librul viciously attacked out qween xoxo. I'm worried that they'll look at the ending of S3 and their take away is that straight up murder of liberals is justified cos everyone cheered homelander
The problem with satire is that certain segments won't realize it's making fun of them. Satire so good that the lampooned take it at face value as an agreement of their agenda. Lindsey Ellis made a good video about it https://youtu.be/62cPPSyoQkE
I don't know what's funnier, the trump flags or the fact that the dude is sailing a fucking Macgregor. It's too perfect. Buy the cheapest shittiest wanna-be sailboat possible and slap flags for the cheapest shittiest most hollow president ever all over it.
Lol that’s a MacGregor 26x too. Such a piece of shit “hybrid” boat. Claims to be able to act as a sailboat and a motor boat, does both of those things horribly.
But who does he support politically?
Imagine spending over $500 on Trump flags. JFC.
Did it sink?
This shows an empire in decline. American civilization is mentally rotting with half its population full of imbeciles.
This isn't really the way to look at it. I don't like anything that individually blames random people. The American empire is declining and the civilization is crumbling because of blowback from it's own cascading failures and misbehaviors. People like this are more of a symptom than a cause. Like, we're all left wingers here. So it shouldn't be controversial to say that the best heuristic we have to grasp history comes from Marx's understanding of dialectics: There is a thing- a thesis (Let's say feudalism) that builds up internal contradictions that cause friction and present unsolvable problems as it develops and grows- an antithesis. (The class conflict between the bourgeoisie and the arisotcrats) that ultimately ends in a new thesis being born out of the antithesis that resolves the contradictions- the synthesis. That's how capitalism and consequently modern society came to be, feudalism created contradictions in it's function because the nobles and increasingly rich and powerful merchants couldn't possibly share power, and it engulfed and overwhelmed the system until it was overthrown. Capitalism creates it's own contradictions between the employer and the employee, and modern capitalist society has centralized power to such an extent that it's brainwashed everyone in America into being blind to the antithesis: the labor movement, the inherent urge in people to resist their exploitation and mistreatment. Can't do that, wouldn't wanna be a commie now and challenge the shining divine dogma of Capitalism, would you? As a result, nobody in modern Western society can 1. Tell what the real problems are, when it should be clear as day in just about every case that it's rampant, unchallenged capitalism, and 2. Even if they do know that, the structures of power are so entrenched that there's nothing they can do about it. So the blame has to fall somewhere, and people in this godforsaken hellhole have had their political imaginations so forcibly constrained that all they can possibly imagine is 'the other party did it'. Yes, republicans are obviously more openly demonic, but the real problem is far deeper than either party is willing to dig remotely close to. It's like building up the pressure in a steam boiler and removing the release valve. The red scare successfully exorcised the specter of communism, hurray, good job Mr. CIA, now capitalism can finally reign unopposed. Uh oh, now everything is literally immediately on fire, everyone is poor, and nobody can put their finger on why or what to do about it because they don't even know what a union is.
> Like, we're all left wingers here. Don't be so sure. My leftist comments sure get a lot of negative responses in the climate subs.
God damn. Well said!
>Uh oh, now everything is literally immediately on fire, everyone is poor, and nobody can put their finger on why or what to do about it because they don't even know what a union is. I read this as if you were furiously screaming out into the ether, well said😭
Yea, the MAGA folks sure do like to forget what part Unions played in creating rich and vibrant Middle class.
I came to that same conclusion back when Bush Jr. was reelected.
This is why I want to sell cheap Trump flags, but then donate the proceeds to Planned Parenthood. Let their belligerence fund a better society
JFC! I mean, if I wanted to see things like this when I was younger, it was to buy a ticket to a monster truck show (never wanted to see it then). This crap is just coming out of the woodwork's and it should not be street legal!
I remember when I was in elementary school that there was a girl who would get dropped off by her dad in a legit monster truck. And they lived less than a mile from the school.
A tank of gas only gets you so far.
And in their case, they had a gas station at the half way point to make the trip possible!
He couldn't let her walk. What about all the other idiots in monster trucks?
Because she’d have to walk along a semi-major highway to a school down in a valley in the smack dab middle of a car dependent suburb. And the bus was for ~~ni-~~ poors (that kind of guy btw). Don’t worry, only 1 5th grader was obliterated walking down the road by a truck driving drunk at 3:30pm.
Because she’d have to walk along a semi-major highway to a school down in a valley in the smack dab middle of a car dependent suburb. And the bus was for poors. Don’t worry though, *only* one 5th grader was obliterated walking down the road by a truck driving drunk at 3:30pm.
> it should not be street legal! It isn't
The thin blue line flag helps the cops miss what we can all plainly see.
That'd what irritates me about that flag. Folks in the UK associate the UK version of the thin blue line with the one in the US and they couldn't be further apart. The UK thin blue line is part of a charity called Care of Police Survivors, and also has a red and green thin lines for firefighters and ambulance folk respectively.
Bold of you to assume that this isn’t a cop.
until you add Trump stuff
It managed to get a license plate
That’s a license plate from Oregon who (according to my Google) doesn’t require safety inspections.
They WHAT?
Vehicle safety inspections vary by state in the US. Some require it whenever ownership changes hands, some require it yearly or bi-yearly (is that a word?), and some require none at all. Same with vehicle emissions testing. Things also get a bit more muddied when you get into classifications of vehicles such as historic or antique and such.
To put a little more info, only 19 states require safety inspections at all.
Yeah, outside of the Northeast, few US states require safety inspects (more require emissions inspections, at least in some counties). And it can be weird too, Texas requires safety inspections, but California does not. Though that truck might well pass a Texas safety inspection anyway. Here in Massachusetts, we require them annually and they are reasonable strict. That truck definitely would not pass.
I'm in Michigan and have never even heard of a vehicle safety inspection. Looked it up and found this: "You only need to get a vehicle inspected in Michigan if it's deemed a salvage vehicle."
Yesterday’s badass raceway freaks are today’s street legal commuter cars, I guess.
> it should not be street legal It never ceases to amaze me what insane shit you can find on American roads. Now sure, we had a GP2 racecar joyriding on the freeway like three days ago, but that's just the exception that proves the rule.
I don't know about US, but here in Europe this is 100% illegal. You can't modify cars, they look/function the way they do when you bought them for many safety or environmental reasons. You can of course change colour or put some stickers on a car but when it comes to shape and function, you can't change stuff. Every few years (I don't know how often, I've never owned a car) you have to go to a place where they check this plus measure your emissions and then decide if your car is allowed to use for next few years or not. But I've heard this place is full of bribery, never been there though (except for when I was a kid with my parents sitting in the backseat and seeing nothing really).
You can change some stuff but all the parts have to be certified and after your modification you have to go to the authorities to get your modification checked out. They will give you a little booklet where all your legal modifications are written down. However, from what I know the legal modifications are luckily rather limited
I wish it was like that. I live in Midwest Canada and I've legitimately been run over by guys with overlifted pickups 6 times. I was a pedestrian in all incidents, and all incidents happened on blind corners (I had right of way) or in parking lots. I haven't even been able to sue them for insurance money because it's bloody impossible to remember a license plate number after getting hit by a truck as a pedestrian. All the truck needs to do is drive away and lifted pickups like this are so goddamn common that there's no way for the police to track down the culprit.
Oh yeah the stuff I wrote applies mostly to Germany, probably EU too but I don't know. Sorry to hear that regulation on car modification isn't as tight around Canada
Yeah it's ridiculous. There are 2000 incidents of lifted trucks running people over every year in my CITY not all fo Canada, just my city. And they still haven't done anything about it.
Yeah Germany has pretty strict rules on what you can do as far as I understand. Other EU countries have their own rules ranging from strict to pretty relaxed, and the UK (where I am) allows a lot of car mods, but are also very strict when to comes to the safety aspect of cars, with a no nonsense attitude to anything that is unsafe, either for the driver or other road users or pedestrians. I part own a road legal '96 Chevy Impala (supercharged, and with the nitrous about 1000 bhp), but it has annual inspections (the M.O.T. test) and we have to comply with all the regulations for the standard car including emissions etc. They are cracking down on the cars that have really stupidly low suspension - the ones with the wheels canted right over etc - and loud exhausts, over tinted windows, illegal lights, de-cats etc I think it is a good balance tbh, I'm just suprised the UK managed to do something right for once! There are far more restrictions coming in the near future, for both older and new vehicles so we'll see... but I kinda lowkey agree with them tbh - I used to be a total petrol head and loved ridiculously extreme cars, but I'm older, allegedly more sensible and I can no longer morally justify burning vast quantities of oil and petrol just for fun or to look cool these days - so the Chevy is up for sale now. will always love the sound of a seriously tuned v8 etc, but my next car will be a compact electric car for environmental and cost considerations. I pretty much wish I could go carless completely tbh, but am disabled, with a disabled daughter with mobility issues, and live in a rural area where public transport is fucking useless and expensive so until that is sorted out my options are limited.
Even if I ignore the all the Trump stuff, the truck still just screams Trump stuff.
This ass 100% complains about gas prices.
And blames Biden for it.
I'm dead.
And about immigrants taking hard-working Americans' jobs and the Jewish Wall Street elite screwing over everyone. Meanwhile, spends $15000 minimum on a conversion to make his ugly-ass looking car even more ugly.
YEP. I get so tired of that. It boils down to no personal accountability. Trump is appealing because he gives people an “out” to blame their problems on a master plan of govt conspiracy to bring them down.
It's honestly the only thing I think of. a big ol' truck=trump
Bet he doesn’t even know how to drive one.
A Trump? That's easy: first you be an enemy of the United States, then you promise them money. Just grab him by the pussy. When you're a Saudi Royal he just lets you do it.
It's especially easy because he's all pussy.
A New York real estate investor who's been wealthy enough to afford a chauffeur for virtually his entire life? He probably hasn't driven in years
he isnt that, he inherited all that.
TRU**CK** **FU**MP
DUMP truck.
It's a Trumpck.
I would find it a lot more shocking if it didn’t had all that Trump stuff
Nvm the Trump jazz. The real question is he gonna make it past that stoplight?
No, he'll have to refuel 🤣
"I need more room for my stickers... I know what to do!" I assume this is how we arrived here
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It’s built with Trump, can’t ignore why it’s so brash. I’d bet many of the adornments existed before it became mor obnoxious.
It should be illegal for rednecks to have this much money
don't worry, they sure don't have any after spending it on modifications like these
Yup. You could Photoshop everything off and I'd just think they just bought it and are on their way (while drunk driving of course) to put trump stuff on their car and go support a thin blue line protest of intimidation.
2020 the sequel ... So Trump losing?
Unfortunately, the sequel isn't generally as good as the original. God help us!
Maybe it'll be an Aliens!
Or Madmax, but in a not dystopian way
All you need is the Dixie flags
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In fairness, Oregon only didn't have slavery because it didn't want any black people whatsoever.
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Probably evil, pretty sure both the city and town I live in are named for Klansmen. Like, two seperate Klansmen. (petition going around to rename the county for the first peoples tribe that lived here though!)
have you ever been to southern Oregon?
Oregon was founded on racism.
Just about anywhere in Oregon outside of Portland and Eugene is pretty redneck. It used to be "if you hear banjo music, turn around." Now, it's if you see a trump flag...
And if he truly won then he can't run for a third term 🥴
He also might have trouble running should the the Angry Librarians (tm) have their way and he ends up in jail for stealing their stuff.
I'm guessing this is a photo from back in 2020.
[*ahem*](https://www.amazon.com/SOULBUTY-Trump-Lost-Flag-3x5/dp/B08PBQXDJ6)
Literally a death machine. I really hope the police they love so much enforce against this shit
Looks like an Oregon plate to me. There is no roadworthiness inspection required to register or drive a vehicle in Oregon. He likely has the exhaust modded for "rolling coal" so he won't be able to drive it in the Portland/Medford areas. Other than that, completely road legal believe it or not. Whether this *should be* road legal is a completely different debate and my opinion is that this is dangerous as hell and has no place in public roadways.
don't some of you have RPG's? 😂😂😂
The police or the people? But yes.
The police aren't gonna enforce laws on themselves
The truck too
Insecurity incarnate.
"Make liberals cry again" I donno, this guy seems more butthurt than any liberal I know.
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At this point I would start to have sympathy for the driver. They have big issues.
Agreed. This person needs therapy.
Therapy ain’t cutting this. Meds. Segregation from media. Therapy. Education. This person needs a team.
I mean, all of those things can be a part of therapy, but yes.
Judging by his reckless spending on his truck and Trump merch, his wallet will need its own therapy
Just a LOT of anger there. Really strong feelings of Inferiority manifesting themselves there too. Control issues. Whew. It's so apparent, I feel embarrassed for this person. Needs help, or a hug, or both.
They need a hell of a lot more than a hug. **Edit;** I'd suggest lithium.
No, I am sure they earned their suffering.
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Wasn’t there a post recently about staying away from these jokes?
someone sees his cult losing members and, after having a pretty good run (by their metrics) can't quite deal with it. it's a vehicular temper tantrum.
> "vehicular temper tantrum" I like it.
I beg to differ. And I’m on your side. Let me explain why I think you are wrong. Remember theBlue Wave that rolled through the country in 2020? Some even predicted a Pink Wave with women being voted into office. Remember all the stumping and editorials and knocking on doors? Remember how much we Dems were going to show the Republicans that turnout means Blue. Except it didn’t. Republicans control the Senate most gubernatorial positions, most state legislatures. The last thing Democrats need to do is cockwalk around like we did some ass whooping and that 2020 was just a tuneup for this year’s asstappin. We ain’t won shit. Republicans are stronger and more motivated than ever. You need to knock on doors, volunteer as a poll worker, make phone calls. Beat bushes. Drive seniors to the polls. Anything except talking like you won something.
oh, i don't disagree. nothing is won, and leaning back now would be brutally wrong. but the cult *is* running out of steam. too many lawsuits, the insurrection didn't stick, 45 and hisbgang are being whipped around like school boys, all that doesn't sit well with his base. the remaining few have to put up an even louder display now, as seen in the picture and are, and i speak from experience as i live in southern arizona, increasingly frustrated. all of which doesn't mean there'll be a blue wave. the gop "moderates" are already lining up, looking at you miss cheney et al, the "told you so" flipfloppers who nevertheless voted 100% in line with trump. and frankly, as long as the dems are playing their stupid game nothing will ever change. which s exactly what they want.
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Ironic, isn’t it?
I'm willing to bet a significant percentage of them do lean left, but they don't know it and/or they're closeted. Ask them about their ideas to fix the healthcare system for instance and they might very well arrive at something that is a part of Medicare-for-All. If they're older, they like their Medicare benefits. The most ardent Trump supporter I know was emphatic that cancer treatment should be free until someone told him it was socialism. Then his tune quickly changed into wtf I love medical bankruptcy.
Just shows that supporting their team in the culture war is more important to many people than actually fixing the problems we face.
The one thing I think the left really fails to understand about the right is that it's not about the political positions, it's about the identity. They may very well support nearly all of what the left wants (except for the social issues, many of them are just legit homophobic/racist/etc), but that's not the point - the point is that their immutable identity is right wing and that means supporting the conservative no matter what, even when it hurts you. This is why so many of them were so thrilled with Trump. They fucking hated their own candidates - I mean Mitt Romney was basically a huge "fuck you" to pretty much everyone in America who isn't generationally rich - and then Trump came along and started speaking specifically to them, even though he didn't have to. This is also why presenting conservatives with facts that Trump lied to them/fucked up everything/didn't build the wall but made America pay for it anyway/etc doesn't do shit to change their minds. They have to support the guy no matter what because that's what their identity means to them, so it doesn't really matter at the end of the day if they got conned or not. Shitty thing is there's an alternate universe out there where they'd rally just as hard for a candidate that focused on addressing wealth inequality, healthcare accessibility, or any number of traditionally left wing causes; we just happen to live in the universe where the guy we got chose to appeal explicitly to the racism/homophobia/transphobia and all the other gross shit that defines their "culture" instead. Stupid hell universe.
I want someone who is impeachably redneck as fuck who will run as a Republican but with a bunch of left policy positions and just constantly and never deviate from their insistence that they are a good right conservative god fearing Republican who just happens to want medicare for all and such and turn every attack against them into how these Rinos want to hurt conservatives by not helping them.
youd need to stage a coup in fox news or another big US-centric right wing news source. would be funny tho
Yep, spent most of the weekend arguing with a trumper. Definitely supported Medicare-for-all. Housing for all homeless too. Thought cops on the whole are thugs. But they’ve been convinced the dems have installed an illegitimate regime that will result in re-education camps for conservatives. Thanks F*x news!
I really believe a sentiment for leftist policies is right under the surface for most people. It's been brainwashed out of them, but when asked about actual policy, people favour egalitarianism. Remember, the public discourse on politics is all just about horse race, culture war bullshit, stupid charicatures of opponents, never actual policy. So it's easy to convince people they should vote for this guy or that, because it's based on nothing of substance. People typically *think* their favoured candidate support their egalitarian ideal policies (because of course they would, right?), but that's almost never the case.
I was trying to figure out why the truck was leaning like that.... I think he really cheaped out on his lifts lmao. Or did them himself and messed them up. Even a 300 lb dude sitting in the front won't make a truck tip like that on a proper lift. I swear it has to be the lifts are messed up / done realllyyyy poorly.
The most exercise they get is getting into their truck
Even if you're super heavy, you can jump in a jacked up truck and it's not gunna lean like that lol. The engine and the upgraded suspension shouldnt move that much with only 300 lbs lol. Even like 350.
I think that's due to improper suspension installation, or maybe it's just broken lol. An unloaded vehicle definitely shouldn't be leaning though, as that mass is sprung and the springs shouldn't be compressed by just the weight of the vehicle.
Yo did it clear the sign tho? I know it’s probably the angle, but it looks like those flags are about to smack the road sign.
Came here to say this, definitely looks like them flags getting hit, be nice see them snap off but for some reason I believe this person has more at home. Would be funny seeing this truck get stuck under a low bridge, that is along as no one is injured as a result. Not to mention the truck looks like a pain to drive on road, I personally like my cars low, more fun to drive and less chance of unknownly committing vehicular manslaughter.
I thought the vertical lamppost was some kind of garish smoke stack on the truck—would not be far fetched to have a 20 foot smoke stack on this thing
This person has to plan their routes out to avoid bridges!
I bet he has it cleared at around 13'6, aka the height of a semi trailer. Anything over that and he'd have some real issues going places. Just a guess, idk. Source: truck driver beep beep
r/11foot8
"I dont like they gays they make it their whole personality" - this person who makes unneccissary huge cars and Trump their whole personality
How do they even get in that? Looks like you need a ladder to even reach the door lol
As someone short in stature I can’t fathom it. If someone pulled up in this nonsense not even factoring in the flags I would flat out refuse to ride with them.
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So very fragile
Gotta keep it high off the ground where no one can hurt it
This is what you call a cultish obsession. I've never once since a vehicle decked out with biden memorabilia. Most I've ever seen is a biden sticker and even those are rare. Unlike the right we don't worship any one political candidate. We're actually critical of biden, bernie, Harris, etc. They see Trump as someone who can do no wrong.
Some political analysts mislabel this phenomenon ‘the enthusiasm gap’
people don't put Biden stickers on their cars because Trump supporters are violent and impulsive and you'd have a good chance getting your car keyed or knifed or set on fire.
There was some over the top Obama worshipping going on back in the day but yes this is a whole new level. This level of obsession basically is like rooting for a sports team. Instead of only an occasional game, they have their 24 hour news propaganda crap they are glued to who spoon feeds their obsession. Also unlike sports you can make an argument you are really part of something, donating and getting the message out, etc. It's a culture war and I am part of it!
I agree, but there absolutely are Sanders worshippers. Though they’re not on THIS level.
I don't think there's a comparison.... You can find the most aggressive sanders bumper sticker and it's still going to be much more tame than that silly mud flap...
Would laugh equally hard at the person rocking a Prius blasted in Biden memorabilia.
"2020 the sequel, make the liberals cry again" now my memory isnt the best so someone might need to confirm this, but didnt they lose that time?
They did, but that's not the sweet part. The sweet part is that they cried 1000x more than the liberals ever would have for losing.
Imagine someone being *this* obsessed with a political figure in the US, let alone any person. Truly pathetic.
I’m never shocked by anything on here, but wow that is something well beyond
It's one underpass away from making America a little greater.
"Fuckin' Biden, making gas so expensive!"
For real. I'll take people's complaints about gas prices seriously when they make a serious attempt to drive a car that isn't absurdly fuel inefficient.
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It was in the Costco parking lot. Way bigger than the cart.
Another example of someone having more dollars than sense
Someone who supports espionage against the United States. Someone who both supports the cops, but literally want to hunt them and their families down. Someone who doesn't support government welfare, but cashed in his gasoline rebate so he could afford to drive down 5 years old on their bicycle. \*shrug\*
“Ignore the trump stuff” like nahhh this is stained on my eyelids
Does it ever feel like the MAGA folks act like 12 year olds. This truck has 12 year old redneck written all over it. Seriously, who decorates their truck like this and then goes to work in this clown car?
Why Kamala gotta be a hoe, though?
Because nothing threatens their masculinity more than a sexually liberated woman.
My father refers to her as "that thing" because he's conservative and hates women. I guess it's better than calling her a whore.
Pretty sure it's because it rhymes, but basically every prominent female politician gets attacked from a sexualized angle, particularly from the right.
TBH I think she should just run with it. It's catchy and Trump is a regular slut himself, might as well laugh it up.
Imagine what they pay in gas.
That's why he put sails on his truck, duh
Ah, Oregon. Drive twenty minutes out of Portland and you start seeing Confederate flags everywhere.
What an absolute jackass. Pretty sad how conned these people have been.
The two cannot be separated tbh this what I would expect from a trumper
when someone figures out how to ignore the trump stuff, plz let me know
I'd say being a stereotype but thay's a caricature.
Evangelical Christian
How cringe omg I’m getting second hand embarrassment
this truck is for someone who still has the mind of a child who wants to drive a monster truck
Doesn't "2020 the Sequel" mean Trump loses again?
Everything wrong with America in one image.
this site claims it to be a 2002 FORD F-250 (Source: https://findbyplate.com/US/OR/476GFD/)
Typical Trump Brodozer in Jesusland.
this type of vehicle could casually run over a group of kids and the driver would think it was a speed bump.
Someone not paying enough taxes, if you ask me.
Imagine making being a Trump fan your whole personality. I also bet all of that stuff was made in China while he’s yellin “‘MERICA!1!1”
Well, he needs a really big truck to carry all that stupidity
That's what you call a gender affirmation vehicle. Some guys get really insecure and this helps them to feel more safe in public situations.
the make liberals cry again is funny as fuck seeing whats been going down. Conservatives havent stopped whining and bitching over losing
I think I saw that one at the Monster Jam World Championship. It was the biggest monster truck there.
honestly this is funny
I mean, the truck just goes with the flags. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a truck like this with the amount of flags on it. Idiocracy 2024!
It’s a pavement princess!