• tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    23·
    6 days ago

    Everyone spotted wearing these should be noted and never allowed to hold office again (and preferably rot in a prison for life). This is gross.

  • drolex@sopuli.xyz
    23·
    6 days ago

    Sad it’s coming to this, but the flag pin was at one point or another leading to this kind of stuff. I wish this would have just led to bigger and bigger pins to show that people are more patriotic than their opponent.

    Nationalism leads to cult of personality. Cult of personality leads to… ah shit I can’t remember. Fashion I think?

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    Had someone brag about one of these hideous things at work, shortly after election. He was so excited to show it off. Haven’t seen him or his ugly gold lump since then.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      8·
      6 days ago

      You think it’s gold?

      Anyhow, it’s jarring to meet such people IRL. I don’t live in the USA (I guess I’d be constantly jarred if I did) but even so I had a Trumpist coworker once - it was jarring.

  • molten@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 days ago

    Yo, please edit this post to specify that this isn’t in any way confirmed. Don’t need to be making me pull my hair out over one guy with a pin.

    • potpotato@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Snopes: A White House official said via email: “Obviously, we did not order officials to wear this pin. If they choose to wear one, it is to show support for the greatest President in history.” Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair seen in photos wearing the golden Trump lapel pin, had not responded to requests for comment about why he wore the pin at the time of this writing.

      Still pretty fucked.

    • huppakee@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 days ago

      My personal rule is when there’s no source, I don’t believe it straight away

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 days ago

    Definitely not concerning to put a persona above the country. If only there was a term for an exaggerated form of admiration and reverence directed towards a political leader, often cultivated through propaganda and media manipulation.

    I exploit you, still you love me I tell you one and one makes three

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    I couldn’t find any sources but I recall Biden forgot to wear an American flag pin and right wing media lost it.

    • D_C@lemm.ee
      6·
      6 days ago

      I say, that 2cm hole from the gun shot healed up fantastically!!
      I mean it’s almost as if it never happe…no, what am I saying. It’s not as if a tRUMPf would ever blatantly lie.

      No, I’m absolutely sure that it definitely wasn’t just an ikkle tiny (like his hands) cut that happened when the bullet wisped inches away from his stunningly thin skin rupturing it. No, it positively ripped his ear to pieces and the best, most tremendous, beautiful, tremendous, perfect surgeons put him all back together again like fucking Humpty Bastard Dumpty could only wish for. Yes, that’s it!!

      Also, he’s a diseased cunt.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    8·
    6 days ago

    Soon people outside the cabinet will be required to wear them. All the gov agencies, public servants, ultimately military, etc.
    No pin, no “due process”.

    • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 days ago

      And certain people will have to wear an icon on their clothes. Jews have to wear a yellow star, gays a pink triangle, etc

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        3·
        6 days ago

        Finally some simplicity to this complicated racism my brain can’t keep up with!

        Now the gov is finally providing a clear service for its people!

        /s

        (But prob like an e-paper tag for everyone so they can change it on the fly depending on what you say or like on social media)

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      Then it’ll be on the army helmets, and maybe we could but some bones across it to show how they’re baddies… err uh sorry i meant bad ass.

  • nieminen@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    Just the fact that I saw this, and it surprised me not at all, is a huge red flag. I totally understand that it’s been (at least mostly) disproven, and it was likely just one asshat in his cabinet doing it for the sake of making sure their nose was lodged just as far as humanly possible into Trump’s ass.

    I would, just once, like to see something like this and be able to assume it’s from the onion. Instead, every time I see something like this, I have to check, because as ridiculous as it is, it’s well within the new standard for POTUS.

  • hedhoncho@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Gross. I’d flatten mine with a hammer and disfigure it if I had to wear it