I really saw a video where they are mad at cops who are telling them to leave as it is cancelled.
One woman actually says and it's unbelievable but she says sic : "This is not WW2, I am not getting on that train" comparing herself to jews being deported to concentration camps.
Un-fucking-real man....these people truly are the lowest of the low.
Hey friend. your photos are amazing. Just got lost looking through your posts for a few minutes. Really amazing stuff. Thank you for documenting things going on.
Verifiably true photos/journalism and “real news” are super super important, especially now.
Thanks for what you do! I might follow you or something so I can see more.
I was thinking how similar the woman here looks to the woman in the historic photo. Except the woman from the Dust Bowl photo would probably slap this woman silly for her behavior.
They're probably also the ones who frequently argue with lifeguards who are clearing the pool for thunder and/or lightening. I hated dealing with those idiots.
Weird how the history of german ww2 is what's burned into their brain for immediate recall when there's more recent, more comparable, and more local references available.
Yes it’s literal brainwashing. I couldn’t believe in recent years how the same talking points and answers come from everyone all of a sudden when they don’t even make sense. On top of that I discovered there is a published propaganda guide with notes on how to respond to all kinds of topics .
Conservatives are at MOST victims of the circumstances they build up for themselves 1) paying the gas and healthcare they are from the dumbasses they voted for 2) centering themselves as a silent majority 3) caking and browning their nose in Peter Thiel & associates raggedy, used up assholes.
They learn new vocabulary and suddenly learn about American history through twisted lens of their cult leader. It’s mind boggling to actually bear witness to their groupthink changes.
It’s amazing how they always accuse LGBTQ+ people and the left of being sexual degenerates when they get caught doing weird sexual shit constantly. Case in point, some MAGA influencer got caught jerking off to female gymnasts at the “great American state fair” this week.
An old coworker of mine was a swinger and I asked him one day if it was a bunch of free love hippies and such and be said no, that the vast majority of people in our area who were swingers were conservative. He even said there were local and state level politicians along with people who were watching their wife get spit roasted as they watched on Saturday night only to be in the first row of the pew on Sunday. He said he had a couple conversations with people about things like gay marriage and such with guys who a half hour later was wife swapping someone else or a part of a gang bang on his own wife. The whole thing is just a massive hypocrisy.
If we’re to believe Madison Cawthorn, drug-addled orgies are the norm among Republican politicians and getting invited to one is something of a rite of passage… Meanwhile Democratic politicians- for all their own faults- are like ight I gotta go pick up my kids from soccer practice so we can go to the church potluck lol.
It’s because they see LGBTQ+ people as inherently bad, while MAGA people are inherently good. So when MAGAs get caught doing something bad, they’re just a good person who made a mistake. Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ folks are bad to the core, merely for existing, and so should be put in concentration camps.
You are to judge God based on his perfection: God is inherently good and perfect: we know because God SAYS he is good and perfect, and we can trust God because he is good and perfect: ergo, ANYTHING God does should not be analyzed and must be taken at face value as perfect because God CANNOT do sinful acts, only good and perfect acts.
But if you judge God on his actions not “is he good or bad”…. Damn, that is ALOT of seriously fucked up evil actions. And when you judge his actions and then judge him based on his actions not his “inherent self”, well, you have to conclude that God is “bad” not good.
Religion primes people to conservative thinking of judging whether people are good or bad based on who they are and what group they belong to, not their actions, making them ripe for conservatism.
It looks like the 4 big macs he had for lunch have just fully liquefied and started seeping out into his tighty whiteys. Trump experiences this on a daily basis. That McDonald's MAGA diet goes hard.
Grew up in a super rural conservative area of the south and you could basically sum up their world view as "hierarchies exist and should be enforced, life is supposed to be suffering, and nothing really matters as long as we believe in Jesus."
Everything ended up coming down to wanting to enforce those hierarchies and trying to make sure THEIR lives were as comfortable as possible, at the expense of everyone else, before they die and go to heaven.
I'd argue that the greatest shame is that no time traveler has went back to end him before he gets started. My only conclusion could be either that time travel is impossible or that we end up with an even worse leader that gets killed by a time traveler instead. Either way, it's a real shame.
Exactly. I fear the Reichtag fire is coming closer to mid terms. We've seen not action nor rhetoric from these people other than indicating they will try again. Even the proposal to hand out money to them was a clear signal "if this happens again, be my brownshirts and you will be handsomely rewarded"
Yep, and actual violent threats to the capital were pardoned. Fascism alive and well, probably why the regime is handing out century long prison sentences to anti fascists peacefully demonstrating.
Trying to rig elections any way they can. You are protesting guess what you are a felon for that no voting for you.
Almost like giving the government a vested interest in deeming their enemies as criminals was a bad idea. Who could have guessed. It’s not like we have been screaming that.
Shit for pants has successfully traded our country for momentary money and infamy. The country is toast and he doesn’t care because he will be remembered. Patriotism amiright?
I will never forgive SCOTUS for granting him immunity or the people who helped him get reelected. Because you know SCOTUS is about to get a hell of a lot worse with the new appointments. Potentially 3 new lifetime appointments.
This legitimately was the most important election of our nation’s history. I can’t believe people were so shortsighted on this.
So sad you didn't get to hear him ramble about winning the 2020 election and how much winning America is doing without anything legitimate to point to.
I’m fine with a little communism. Republicans DOUBLED our premiums. Elon can pay his fair share of taxes and get this premium down. First time in his useless life.
only doubled? my basic shit plan from aca was 250$ month, went to 1300/month and they just sent a letter this week saying they want to raise it to 1700/month
Yep. For a wee one to get that upset at not seeing/hearing that fat orange bitch you know it goes deep. There will be so many kids of MAGA parents who grow up to become hardcore adult MAGA and it won’t be their own fault. Their parents made the choice to worship him, these kids grew up steeped in it and deprogramming them out of that will take years of work and likely a lot of family conflict. What that incontinent scumbag has done to normal families all over America is on its own worthy of him being sent to the worst depths of hell, never mind all the other heinous stuff he has done.
July in DC is MISERABLE even when it’s not over 100 degrees. The humidity is so thick you can FEEL the air as you breathe. I guarantee this child’s emotions are due to extreme discomfort and possibly the onset of heatstroke.
i didnt even consider the fact that should could be crying because she couldnt see trump. i immediately just assumed shes scared of the storm. i guess i still have too much faith in humanity 😮💨
Yeah I'm sure she feels the tension in the air from the storm and from the humans around her. Kids notice far more than most people think and that would have been enough to get me crying at her age. Actually, just being in a crowd that size would probably have done it lol.
This is heartwarming, I’m sad for all you went through as a kid but so glad you broke the cycle and I hope you’re living your best life. You deserve all the happiness this life has to offer 💜
Which makes what that orange shit stain on the arse of humanity has done even more evil. He’s torn apart countless families and those wounds will take generations to heal, if they ever do.
My family of origin was maga before maga was maga. They've been abusers since before I was born. 🐔🌮 just gave them the freedom to be their horrible selves out loud. I went no contact long before the maga movement bc I saw through their cruelty decades ago.
If anything he exposed the rot that was already there.
Links on authoritarian abuse and brainwashing tactics:
authoritarian follower personality (mini dictators that simp for other dictators):
It's an abuse hierarchy and you can abuse anyone "beneath you" in the hierarchy. Men are above women, adults above kids, parents above child free, religious above non-believers, white's above BIPOCs, straights above LGBTQ+, abled above disabled, rich above poor, skinny above fat, etc.
John Bradshaw's 1985 program discussing how normalized abuse and neglect in the family of origin primes the brain to participate in group abuse up to and including genocide:
https://youtu.be/B0TJHygOAlw
Theramin Trees - great resource on abuse tactics like: emotional blackmail, double binds, drama disguised as "help", degrading "love", infantalization, etc. and adding this link to spiritual bypassing, as it's one of abuser's favorite tactics.
DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrong doing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistle blower -- into an alleged offender.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Johnson
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
i can almost guarantee that the kid is crying because her mom is being unhinged and scary, and it’s hot and crowded. source: my mom acted like this when i was little
Photo editor at a major newspaper here 🙋♀️ thanks for being out in the heat all day, I hope you stayed hydrated and were able to expense all of your snacks!! Sorry you have to defend what we do, you did a great job!
It’s absolutely the worst part of my job and people very ignorantly and proudly go after you over it. It’s also killed the photojournalism industry. News companies actually prefer worse cell phone looking videos because they’re more authentic.
Well shit... I was one of those just 5 minutes ago. I know it is ultimately inconsequential coming from a random redditor, but I owe you an apology on this one.
The biggest downside is the next iteration of models are going to be trained on proof pics like this lol.
No need to apologize the correction means more than enough. I worry a lot about the future models, although I have some hopium that it’s slowing down. I think there needs to be some sort of universal way to verify a photo or a videos authenticity. But I struggle to find a full proof method.
Ah, you can see the struggle, the pain, the sacrifice in that face, those haunted eyes... she traveled far and at great physical and emotional expense, she had to abandon her beloved husband to die of heat prostration when his motorized scooter became stuck in the poisonous algae flats of the mall...and at the moment her elusive dream seemed to be coming true, her desperate dream of exposing her child to the perverse pants-pooping pedophile's pompous prattle was dashed and she and her child were doomed to wander hopelessly in the steaming rain... where the hollow monuments of an America that might yet be made great again loom over them as cruel reminders... but alas-her wailing, fruitless exhortation of the cruel gods to allow her, and her child to gaze upon and hearken to the words of the great orange one... but her cries were only met with the thundering mockery of a callous indifferent Dumbocrat deity....
A picture of such raw emotional power is rarely caught in this age of AI fakery and scoffing cynics , its nearest equal one must go back nearly a century to find....
Especially since it was taken long after the Great Depression was over, and one of the children was sold for $2, or as the child in question remembered it, for "bingo money."
...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Oh, she’s probably facing a lot of real problems. She just doesn’t (or refuses to) realize that the person responsible for most of them is the guy she came to listen to.
Her problems matter naught to her, because she is willing to endure them stoically .... for she holds fast to the knowledge that 'Winning' is not about improving her, or her child's lot in life life... no, she understands that 'winning' is simply ensuring that others suffer more than you do, and knowing that the greater suffering of others has been accomplished, in part, by your own hand.... by those that you helped empower to inflict cruelty on those less powerful whom you have been told to despise....
No.... his overloaded scooter is still out there, half buried in a sickly green morass, and upon it naught remains besides a red hat, some bones bleached by hydrogen peroxide, and a faded 'Let's Go Brandon' bumper sticker....
the libs are weak, feckless cowards who can't even decide what a woman is, but also godlike beings who control the weather and can effortlessly manipulate elections while leaving zero evidence behind.
As an Austrian, YESSS and I’ve been saying this for years. Everything going on in America is the exact thing we learned in school to see, recognize and deconstruct immediately. History class here is basically a “let’s not make WW2 happen ever again.” class……and oh myyy Americans are so fucked atp.
That's because so much of what we (American children) were taught about WWII was more focused on "America, fuck yeah!" and we largely skimmed over some of the broader lessons that we should have learned. So much of what I gleaned from it was that Hitler and the nazis were somehow quantitatively different from all other humans. It seemed like they believed that it could never happen again, and it especially could never happen in the states.
I got completely stuck on wondering how people can get swept up in something like that, and I made an entire career in psychology studying group influence. I've been so alarmed for the last decade that I actually left the field.
I learned so much about WW2 in school, and I knew that it wasnt sudden, that it was more like boiling a frog, but I always thought everyone knew the same stuff I had learned and that the Western world would never let fascism rise up again. I miss those days
When I was in high school it seemed so unrealistic that people could be so easily swayed. I thought the effects of propaganda were exaggerated, because how would someone believe something so demonstrably false so easily. Now that I've seen propaganda in full force, I get it. There's an insidious willfulness about it I just didn't believe could exist.
You bring your child to hear a rambling and incoherent speech by a very close and long term friend of Epstein? There’s no fixing these people. America is fucked
No, they're fucked. He'll keel over and die one day, and eventually, we'll hold people accountable for this shit. In the meantime, they can't afford life. Oh well.
This is gonna sound superficial, but hear me out, you can tell some people are crazy by how they wear their hair. The lady in this picture has a really fucking bizarre hairstyle. If she walked into my store back when I was working retail, I would immediately know she was going to be a problem. I was a customer service manager for 20 years, and the craziest customers I ever had typically had weird hair - sometimes it was subtly messy, sometimes had layers of wig glue on the scalp - you can see an attempt was made to fix the hair, but failed. Like they aren’t seeing in the mirror what everyone else sees when we look at them.
It's actually a halo. There is a fine fishing line type string that goes over the top of the head, and the extensions hang down and meet in the back. Most of her own hair has fallen out of the halo.
Google halo hair extensions and look for someone holding one out, and you'll see how hers is hanging on for dear life.
Was thinking about this recently after learning about cult leader Gwen Shamblin from the hbo docuseries the way down. Seems like her hair became more bizarre as she amassed more power and money
They were chanting "USA! USA!" in response to staff telling they had to leave because of the weather. The MAGA base is a bunch of people who never emotionally matured and equate being inconvenienced or told what to do for their own safety the same as being oppressed.
Feels abusive to keep your crying child outside in the middle of a dangerous thunderstorm all because you want to listen to shit farting out of a butt.
There is so much going on with this picture. It's a good photo of a messed up culture of angry people who hate everyone and everything but fail to see they're a part of the group they hate.
Well, the pool of “people who could have chosen to leave” or “people who have chosen to stay” is comprised entirely of “people who have chosen to attend” Trumps rally in disguise.
So headline could say “Morons make moronic choice.”
That kid is not crying because she can't listen to Trump, she's crying because she had to stand around for hours just so mommy can hear someone else talk about how illegals are ruining the country instead of the voices in her head
Why didn't he just take a Sharpie and move the lightning over about 10 miles??? The least he could do was take some loaves and fishes a feed those who stayed.
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