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Trump sends hats out to people standing outside Mar-a-Lago today. Not a cult though. (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2023 OP
Why are these blue? TreasonousBastard Apr 2023 #1
I'm skeptical Rorey Apr 2023 #4
There were some white ones in that box as well. MrsCoffee Apr 2023 #5
Because people allready have red ones so now the TTGM (the Trump grift machine) can sell new hats .. Botany Apr 2023 #6
That's a good bet. Harker Apr 2023 #14
It's why sports teams change uniforms periodically... Wounded Bear Apr 2023 #16
Because a lot of them already have the red hat. kentuck Apr 2023 #10
Blurry Sunday-morning eyes... EYESORE 9001 Apr 2023 #2
Geez, I need glasses. When I first read the subject line, GoCubsGo Apr 2023 #3
That'll be Tuesday. n/t Harker Apr 2023 #15
Throw up! These people need to get a life. Never seen anything like this. walkingman Apr 2023 #7
This should encourage his people to come to NY on his behalf... kentuck Apr 2023 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Apr 2023 #9
Bingo. paleotn Apr 2023 #12
Cheap to the very end Roy Rolling Apr 2023 #11
Not much of a turn out for the orange demi gawd. paleotn Apr 2023 #13
Turn out to support TFG is very sparse. Kaleva Apr 2023 #17
COVID wiped them out a bit. Crowman2009 Apr 2023 #20
Hmmm.... E. Normus Apr 2023 #18
Just clearing out old stock Javaman Apr 2023 #19
made in China, I suspect. NewHendoLib Apr 2023 #21
50 followers is a cult. 50 MILLION RW authoritarian followers Hortensis Apr 2023 #22
It's a cult SledDriver Apr 2023 #23

Rorey

(8,514 posts)
4. I'm skeptical
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 07:38 AM
Apr 2023

Trump "giving"? Maybe the reason that they're blue is because they're not actually from Trump.

Botany

(77,324 posts)
6. Because people allready have red ones so now the TTGM (the Trump grift machine) can sell new hats ..
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 08:14 AM
Apr 2023

... to the brain dead MAGA people.

Harker

(17,785 posts)
14. That's a good bet.
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 09:06 AM
Apr 2023

Hey, kids - collect the whole set!

That, or because it allows them to blend in better.

kentuck

(115,407 posts)
10. Because a lot of them already have the red hat.
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 08:45 AM
Apr 2023

This is new and meant to appeal to the entire MAGA movement, in hopes more will show up to defend his criminal ass.

EYESORE 9001

(29,732 posts)
2. Blurry Sunday-morning eyes...
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 07:37 AM
Apr 2023

I thought your title said, ‘…handing out BATS…’

Which wouldna surprised me in the least.

GoCubsGo

(34,914 posts)
3. Geez, I need glasses. When I first read the subject line,
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 07:38 AM
Apr 2023

I thought it said bats. The sad thing is, one could easily see him handing out baseball bats to those freaks.

kentuck

(115,407 posts)
8. This should encourage his people to come to NY on his behalf...
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 08:21 AM
Apr 2023

...if they think they can get one of those Chinese-made dunce hats?

Response to riversedge (Original post)

Roy Rolling

(7,632 posts)
11. Cheap to the very end
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 08:48 AM
Apr 2023

Blue MAGA hats are never worn by TFG and his cult lieutenants. NEVER.

They are getting rid of the color of hats nobody wants.

When will these idiots realize they are customers and not patriots?

Once people are sold something they regret they may undergo buyer’s remorse, but they never admit they’re wrong and change.

E. Normus

(114 posts)
18. Hmmm....
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 09:50 AM
Apr 2023

I only saw white folks, mostly old ones. Wonder where that same black guy you always see is? Hmmm...

Javaman

(65,711 posts)
19. Just clearing out old stock
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 09:57 AM
Apr 2023

To make room for what’s is coming next.

Throwing worthless bobbles and trinkets to the mouth breathers scrambling for the last bone of their collective delusion

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
22. 50 followers is a cult. 50 MILLION RW authoritarian followers
Sun Apr 2, 2023, 11:08 AM
Apr 2023

who approve everything a wannabe RW dictator calls for are the same kind of people who turned Germany into Nazi Germany.

All authoritarian personalities following their leaders, but if they kill themselves we've been calling them cultists.

If they kill large numbers of others on their leader's orders, though, as currently demonstrated by well over a million Americans dead from the pandemic holocaust they're still spreading, maybe they should be feared as an enormously dangerous authoritarian movement. Their potential has barely been tapped so far.

I was curious but couldn't find any recent poll or article about feelings about MAGA hats, or the red, but there were a lot of social media posts indicating fear of, or seemingly expected, negative reactions if they did wear them. And the numbers of ratings suggesting sales for MAGA hats on Amazon were far fewer than I expected. One vender did have over 8000 ratings, far, far more than any of the others I saw among many vendors. Our toaster has over 30,000.

One guy wore one around Orlando FL for a day in 2019 in order to write about it. It didn't spark any incidents, but lots of stares and glances flicking away made him very uncomfortable and want to take it off long before the day was over. He was asked to leave a store by security because he was making other customers "feel uncomfortable."

Btw, this guy also said he voted for his dog because he found tRump too "tRumpie" to vote for and Hillary "wasn't an option." Umhmm... I suspect if people had to wear their tRump vote on their heads in public he'd have gotten a lot fewer.

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