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Initech

(100,054 posts)
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 04:57 PM Apr 2021

So about those Trump merchandise booths...

I was driving around yesterday and I passed by one, and they've now devolved into selling "F**k Biden" merchandise, complete with t-shirts that have some very violent and offensive slogans on them. Yes this is a thing that exists. And they are hurling obscenities on fairly heavily trafficked street corners. It's totally disgusting. Yes, I know it's meant to be offensive and we fall for it, but this is truly horrid and beyond the pale. But I can't help but keep wondering - where is this shit coming from? And who's sponsoring these booths? What is their purpose? And also - how is this sort of thing even allowed or tolerated by the city?

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nykym

(3,063 posts)
1. you could check to se if they
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:00 PM
Apr 2021

have a license for the booth. Then record them screaming about their first amendment rights and hurling obscenities your way.
Send it off to the licensing dept in you local.

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Initech

(100,054 posts)
6. Something already tells me they don't have a license to operate these booths.
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:21 PM
Apr 2021

My spidey sense was already tingling on that one!

Beachnutt

(7,307 posts)
2. It really shows their mentality and intelligence but surely
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:03 PM
Apr 2021

something can be done to stop the foul laguage, I mean come on there are children around and women.
Can a person sue them in some way for exposing your child to this profanity ?

Initech

(100,054 posts)
8. I don't have children so it doesn't bother me as much.
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:23 PM
Apr 2021

But I'm sure parents do see this and they have to tell their kids not to use those words...

KarenS

(4,069 posts)
3. Yikes,,,, where are you??
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:05 PM
Apr 2021

I saw some FormerGuy Merchandise Booths here in Phoenix AZ before the election but they disappeared immediately after,,,, I'll keep my eyes out for these,,,,

Initech

(100,054 posts)
7. Orange County, CA.
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:22 PM
Apr 2021

Yeah there's some deep red in my neck of the woods. I really got to find a new place to live!

Diamond_Dog

(31,950 posts)
5. Some idiots in the northern part of my county
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 05:15 PM
Apr 2021

Have a huge banner on their house that says FUCK BIDEN, it’s on a busy road travelled all the time by school buses. People have complained, but the police say it’s free speech and there’s nothing they can do. I agree it’s beyond the pale. These types seem proud of their vile and disgusting language.

Shermann

(7,409 posts)
10. I'll bet you can sell those MAGA hats in Japan
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 06:10 PM
Apr 2021

They like apparel with four-letter words in big bold English alphabet letters. They just like the look. The more profane, the better. And what's more profane than MAGA?

We do the same thing with Kanji.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
12. In my little red town there's two
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 06:53 PM
Apr 2021

Fuck Biden flags flying high. Nothing done about the offensive language but I got a notice because I put my garbage by the curb a day early.

kimbutgar

(21,103 posts)
13. My sister in law who lives in Glendale Arizona has been complaining to us about those pop up
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 07:13 PM
Apr 2021

Stores also. A neighbor two doors down from her has a huge Mf45 flag with he is our real president.

These people are friggin insane !


onethatcares

(16,165 posts)
14. saw a pickup truck
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 08:06 AM
Apr 2021

sporting a blue line flag and one of the f... biden flags on the street the other day. they were on one of those tall 1980 models and the guy driving looked like a character out of duck dynasty.

Next time I saw that truck it was on a flat bed tow trailer.

Can't imagine why.....

this was west coast of floriduh.

I asked my wife, "If I put the words ""SLOW THE FUCK DOWN" on the rear window of my truck, would that be ok?"

Hugin

(33,100 posts)
15. *tsk* The Trump drag is not showy enough anymore...
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 09:52 AM
Apr 2021

Now they gotta have flags. Bigger and bigger because there's fewer and fewer of them.

It goes to show they never cared for the former guy nearly as much as they hate other Americans.

Such hatred.

Do they honestly think if there were the vast international conspiracy against them such horseshit would make it to the curb?

There's a stand in the parking lot of a local establishment I used to frequent quite often in pre-COVID times. They are always careful to set them up on private property. I'm going to practice some cancellation culture on, henceforth. Once I finish my government vaccines.

hatrack

(59,583 posts)
16. And the funny thing - that merch wasn't moving at CPAC, the center of the festering boil
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 09:58 AM
Apr 2021

Like Obama, Biden's a Democrat.

Hmm, I wonder what's different . . .

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