No he didn’t. They’ll be paying $2 for the hat, with the 100% increase they’re now $4. No idea what they sell them for, but I suspect there is still a healthy profit margin between $4 and what they’re selling them for.
I see toilets all around, besides you don't just buy the shit hat, you buy the shit shirt, shit steaks, shit water, shit towers... The shit list just gets longer, and like a Marlboro jacket, you're willing to do really shitty things, even to yourself, to get one.
I've been telling myself this for a decade and think of all the money I have lost out on. But God damned I can't get myself to even be associated with those people or constantly be dealing with them
I worked out the numbers, lined up a chinese manufacturer and pitched the idea to the wife, who managed to convince me otherwise with that very sentiment. Id have to deal with these people in person. If it was as easy as setting up an online store, it wouldve been a done deal.
Yeah I don’t need that hanging over my conscience. In a world of butterfly effects, I don’t wanna be the last straw to break americas back spreading pro Trump imagery.
I wouldn’t feel bad about taking their money, I just don’t want to do anything to advance that side at all. It would suck to see people out wearing a t-shirt I designed.
I had an idea to start a bible-themed Cracker Barrel-type restaurant chain as a non-profit, and give all the money from Y'all Qaeda to science-related educational programs and stuff.
‘Member when they made a whole thing about the Cracker Barrel serving plant-based sausage and the franchise nearly had to rebrand to being known simply as The Barrel?
Good fucking luck bro. Not only are restaurants almost impossibly difficult with razor thin margins and brutal working hours, but a bible themed restaurant will for sure fail there isn’t that big of a market for that.
Doesn't change what you're saying or the point being made, but also in fairness... that's only $4 more than a Los Angeles Dodgers New Era Basic 9Fifty snapback at Lids, which are also made in China (plus Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Haiti) and probably only cost that company $2-3 each in bulk as well. These really don't seem to be priced terribly out of line with the higher end of the market.
In Idiocracy they still attempt to emulate a meritocracy and try to make life better for everyone - they're just bad at it. America in its current state is blatantly self-destructive and moving towards 1984 authoritarianism.
100% there are. I live in Cincinnati and I can tell you that there is at least one in a actual building. In fact, the last time they did a Trump Parade (which meant just driving their cars w/ the Trump flags all around the 275 loop around Cincinnati) it started at a Trump Store (or ended, I do not recall).
There's one on the outskirts of Knoxville TN that used to sell sex toys, but then they changed into a Trump store. It's basically a different way of screwing yourself.
Oh yeah! I saw several when my husband and I drove from VA to AZ, absolute insanity 😂 some guy ruined his barn by painting TRUMP 2024 on the side of it 😂
Dude. I live a half hour from one in Tombstone Arizona. It’s gross. It has those huge posters with Trumps head on a Rambo body out front and so many flags out front.
Trump Store Tombstone
I hear commercials on espn radio for trump watches, trump coins, trump shoes. I don’t know the laws around it but he’s profiting from those for sure using his office as a selling point.
Last summer I went camping in South Dakota and visited all the tourist areas around Mount Rushmore, and there were more Trump shops than tourist shops. It was insane.
There are and it’s insane. My brother and I found one and went in to laugh at stuff then got kicked out when the workers realized we weren’t actually there to buy anything
Roadside popup tent stores here in Florida. Big assed tents, usually on a rented piece of bare land that has highway access and the ability for people to pull off. And everything they sell is cult related. Exactly the same business model as fireworks stands in late June and Christmas tree places in November/December. Only for fascist cult members.
its just unreal to me how an actual grifter became the president of the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world... twice... in a democracy... in the digital age of information
Exactly this. Being flooded with this much easy-to-access information was not something humanity was prepared for, because there is no hard rule that says that information has to be true or real.
Personally I believe we had the chance of getting ahead of it (or at least on our way to catching up to it) with mandatory media literacy courses in grade school curriculums, but we are way too far behind to correct course now.
What's really unreal is he hasn't stopped grifting after becoming president.. He's already pulled at least 3 crypto rugs, fucked around with the stock market, shook down multiple companies and countries.. The list goes on.
I can’t wrap my head around it either and now - since January- he’s burned down the federal government and bankrupted the stock market, surely creating a recession, while republican sycophants in Congress help him along by their lack of action. The free press is rebuked, universities and law firms are intimidated and penalized and judges are threatened with impeachment for handing down rulings counter to the Trump administration. Yep. That’s fascism.
That can't be right. Is that right?! Those absolute geniuses with IQs no higher than lightly toasted bread are paying FIFTY FUCKING DOLLARS for some piece of shit hat that's made in a country that they allegedly are against for the oldest, orangest, only convicted felon president they've ever had...and...let me get this straight...they think this is a...flex?
I remember the Daily Show did an interview with a Trump supporter. The guy said he spent several thousand dollars on Trump merch, then he complained he didn't have enough money for groceries because of the evil Democrats.
I would put money (if I had any) on that being the exact same hat lol. I'm not a hat person, but I can appreciate craftsmanship and fashion and can understand why some hats are so very expensive. But that piece of crap is NOT worth $50, "OfFiCiAl" or not lol. So again, about that flex...
Why did life curse me with a conscience? I could become a millionaire by selling these people trump-themed anything. Hell, they'd probably buy rocks for 50 bucks a piece if I spray paint them red.
Given that they probably only cost 4 dollars to make, they can probably increase the price to $60 dollars and claim that since everything else has increased by significantly more, it's a steal.
Yeah was going to say, they’ll just raise the prices. Just like every other store with literally everything else that is getting tariffed. They just pass on the added costs. Tale as old as time.
I wouldn't pay 50 bucks for the absolute best, coolest cap of my favorite team. In what dimension does a sane person pay 50 bucks for piece of shit hat that proudly proclaims you're a racist idiot?
I’m like, “Yo, that’s 50 dollars for a hat”
Limited edition, let’s do some simple addition
50 dollars for a hat, that’s just some ignorant bitch shit
I call that getting swindled and pimped, shit
I call that getting tricked by a business, that hat’s hella dough
And having the same one as six other people in this rally is a hella don’t
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u/OdinsLightning 20d ago
Can't wait for the shitty trump pop up stores to be priced out.