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Ocelot II

(130,647 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:52 PM Jan 2025

This is what young Trumpers look like - they aren't the paunchy, middle-aged Bubbas [View all]

hanging out at a truck stop in Dumbfuckistan that WaPo reporters love to write about. They're these assholes - urban, well-connected, what were formerly called yuppies:

This set’s most visible political stance is a reaction to what it sees as the left’s puritanical obsessions with policing language and talking about identity. A joke about Puerto Ricans or eugenics or sleeping with Nick Fuentes could throw a pack of smokers outside Butterworth’s into a gigglefest. Recounting her time at one of the balls, a woman tells me she jumped the velvet rope into a VIP section “like a little Mexican.” Then she lets out a cackle. This is the posture that has attracted newcomers to the cause. “Six months into Biden being president, I was like, I can’t fucking do this anymore,” says a 19-year-old New Yorker who once quite literally had blue hair and attends Marymount Manhattan, which he describes as “75 percent women and 23 percent trannies.” He had supported Biden, but “I hate watching the things I say. I took a much farther horseshoe around this time.” Later, a former Bernie supporter (who looked like the most Bernie-supporting person one could imagine with long, curly hair and a plaid shirt) told me the same: He wanted the freedom to say “faggot” and “retarded.”
https://archive.ph/yGCKI#selection-1753.0-1757.498

They're worse than the Bubbas because they should fucking know better.
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They walk among us Drum Jan 2025 #1
They want freedom from the social consequences of behaving like an asshole, meadowlander Jan 2025 #2
... milestogo Jan 2025 #24
Evil on legs. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #3
These a re people of low character which has little to do with economics class or social prominence. walkingman Jan 2025 #4
Yep. They're worse. FM123 Jan 2025 #5
JFC. jeffreyi Jan 2025 #6
Assholes have to be Assholes. No responsibility is key. NoMoreRepugs Jan 2025 #7
I keep trying to tell everyone: AverageOldGuy Jan 2025 #8
Not having been born in or lived in the South, I only started understanding that recently... Hekate Jan 2025 #16
Yup lonely bird Jan 2025 #17
Hard to disagree. But it was really aided by wanna be KPN Jan 2025 #20
Totally agree BannonsLiver Jan 2025 #32
It goes both ways. LisaL Jan 2025 #9
They do get upset. That's their problem. That people say bad things about them if they say these things. JI7 Jan 2025 #33
Butterworth's harumph Jan 2025 #10
Recommended. H2O Man Jan 2025 #11
I was crushed to find out JMCKUSICK Jan 2025 #12
'He wanted the freedom to say "faggot" and "retarded."' J_William_Ryan Jan 2025 #13
What they really want is to be able to use language like "faggot" and "retard" Ocelot II Jan 2025 #15
They wanted socially acceptable hate RainCaster Jan 2025 #14
He already has the freedom to say 'faggot' and 'retarded' Joinfortmill Jan 2025 #18
". . .he doesn't want to be told he's a jerk. . ." DinahMoeHum Jan 2025 #27
What they want is people to laugh when they say these things as if they are "the life of the party" JI7 Jan 2025 #34
Slight disagreement lonely bird Jan 2025 #19
"trannies" choie Jan 2025 #21
I have to admit misanthrope Jan 2025 #31
They want their hateful, enigmania Jan 2025 #22
Casual cruelty canetoad Jan 2025 #23
"He wanted the freedom to say "faggot"..." LudwigPastorius Jan 2025 #25
Scary. Reminds me of the yuppies from the movie "Trading Places." question everything Jan 2025 #26
Obnoxious frat kids struggle4progress Jan 2025 #28
So they want the government swong19104 Jan 2025 #29
When did President Biden issue an executive order Martin Eden Jan 2025 #30
There isn't a single Trump voter. progressoid Jan 2025 #35
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