But these sheep can't wear masks? Give me a fucking break.
To be fair, they need the bandage just as much as trump does.
Like. A day or two after the attempt he was out golfing and didn't have a bandage or anything.
I think it was just a small nick and the blood thinners he's likely on just makes you bleed like crazy since they prevent clotting. A small scratch looks like a war wound, and would explain why there was blood everywhere but he still has a functional ear.
Like, if he really got shot in the ear, he'd be missing a part of his ear like in Preacher. It won't just heal back.
Dude got a scratch and is playing it up.
He's a WWE Hall of Famer. I would not be surprised if he was blading.
Trump is on blood thinners? Why?
...
He's in his late 70s, doesn't exercise, eats like shit, and is drastically overweight...
Like, it's one of those things that are just safe to assume. Blood thinners arent really that rare for people 30 years younger than either candidate.
I wonder what his theoretical are is lol.
His blood is thick with hamburger juice.
A lot of people that age, with his OBVIOUS unhealthy BMI are on blood thinner as prevention more than anything else.
To prevent strokes and heart attacks. It's pretty common.
Well...
There isn't a fourth monkey covering its nose.
There is, however, a fourth monkey covering his crotch. "Do no evil"
The masks prevent them from quaffing their own farts all day long.
LOL what the fuck. i've never seen a more subservient bitchass group of bootlicking sheep than republicans
They really are strange.
Apparently, the other people are sheep. These are the free-thinking freedom loving people! /s
Dear God man ... this is crazy cringe.
Projection is how Republicans roll. Remember when MAGA accused Joe Biden of wearing diapers and they found out their dear orange felon/rapist cult leader wore them instead, and started wearing them?
LOL WHAT
It's not as weird as the diapers.
I think it's pretty close. Both are super fucking weird and pathetic.
Don't knock diapers till you try em tho
And yet they’re the ones screeching about “alpha males and the loss of masculinity in America.”
which is hilarious, because if you're whining about someone "taking away your masculinity," (OR if you're having panic attacks about someone else's masculinity) then you were never masculine in the first place.
Fragile masculinity.
Hierarchies gonna hypocritize.
But remember, they hate being called sheep.
Just a reminder, jd vance, trumps newest vp pick, has on many occasions been quoted in the past of saying "I didn't vote for trump", "I never liked trump", and "I'm a never-trump guy".
NOW he sings trumps praises, and kisses trumps ass.
vance is just another vapid muppet who'll get thrown under the bus the instant shit goes sideways and trump needs someone to blame for...whatever. just like all the other used-to-be-never-trumpers who are now fighting over who gets to be first to be facialed by trump
His name has an extra syllable, he might be counting on Trumpanzees being unable to make a nice little chant like they did for Pence.
Vance literally called Trump "America's Hitler" in a now deleted tweet.
Also so many are Christian and say shit like "the lord is my shepard" in the same breath that they call other people "sheep."
I’m gonna take your word, I ain’t clicking on anal fistulas.
"I'M NOT THE MESSIAH!"
He's just a naughty boy!
"I say you are Lord and I should know, I've followed a few"
"HE IS THE MESSIAH!"
#NotACult
So say we all.
Don't they know a bandage on the right ear means you are gay?
I guess I will explain it for people
This is actually a thing…with piercings
Getting the right ear pieced, also called the gay ear, is a way to signal to others that you are gay. I have no idea if it’s still a thing but growing up if you were getting a piercing the rule was left or both
I have two in my right, one in my left, and have been told many times that its the same thing. More in the right ear apparently makes me gay. Im definitely straight, but I kept my piercings like this for the last 15 years, and wouldnt you know it, the only people telling me thats gay are other straight people. This is certainly just personal experiences, but my personal experience is that its not a 'gay rule' as much as its a 'homophobe rule.' Like you said, pretty sure it was a style or signal in the gay community in the 80s or something, but any more it just feels like an urban legend perpetuated by bigots.
Honestly it just reminds me of the moral panic over "cock ring Ken."
(also amusing in this context to note that his earring is in his left ear, so I'm not sure even the homophobes were consistent about this)
I actually always figured it was based in the same logic as flagging. Beware; extremely NSFW link about sex and BDSM.
Do you ever punish those straight people for their mistake by humping their buttholes?
Yes.
Honestly, I don't blame straight people that caught up with the "right ear" thing in the 80's for that they haven't caught up with the fact that it's expired.
Or, as my mom so concisely put it when I was a child, "Right is wrong if you're straight."
She voted for trump, didn't she?
Progressive-leaning lesbian and vehemently anti-Trump, actually. She was very much a part of LGBTQ+ culture in the 90s, and the ear piercing thing was a part of it at the time. Though it really has fallen to the wayside nowadays.
Is this still a thing? I could have sworn it fell away like ten years ago.
Then again, I wasn't sure certain types of pants would ever come back. RETURN TO US, JNCO!
Is 40 years old too old to start wearing JNCO and Sketchers again?
Wear JNCOs and healies and then you can look like you're floating around like a Russian dancer
Nope.
I heard it was the left ear, or any piercing, or it was the right ear, or it was only certain kinds of piercings.
None of it was true.
This was never a very reliable thing ever and certainly isn't anymore. The joke the OP makes is in reference to what it was used for, which was an attempt to attack / stigmatize anyone who did choose their right ear for a piercing perpetrated by small minds. Many of those small minds have now grown into the hateful old bigots that are the base of the GOP.
So they're fine with cloth on the face as long as it's completely unnecessary?
Seems everyone should have realized by now what a weak, sad, and pathetic group the Republican party is.
You mean the American Fascist Party?
Not to be confused with the American Nazi Party. But I forget what the difference between the two is these days
Yes, you two are in agreement. You're saying the same thing.
Republikkklowns
I can’t decide if this is more or less weird than wearing a diaper in support of Trum…no…it’s less weird…right?
Are we 100% sure they're not also wearing diapers?
No! And that’s why I decided the diapers were weirder. Those folks had to go out of their way to announce they were wearing diapers.
I mean what even is the point of wearing a diaper in support of Trump if you don’t tell everyone?
Those folks had to go out of their way to announce they were wearing diapers.
I did not look at it from that angle, but you are 100% correct; the diapers are weirder. lol
I'm pretty sure. There would be no end of them telling/showing you.
Since these people aren't treating any ear injury, you might as well call these "ear diapers."
That is consistent with their usage of chin diapers that also had no medical use.
I'll give it to you, this is the most a Not The Onion post has made me go "wait, is that The Onion"?
Good job. I think.
I genuinely don't know how satirists are supposed to make a living any more.
Oh, did you not see the commemorative sneakers he's selling?
Nah, that I believed. Trump shilling useless crap is extremely plausible.
The people that hate virtue signaling love signaling the dumbest virtues.
They like playing the victim card, then turn away from people who truly are victims.
You think if the shooter hadn't missed they'd be removing their heads in solidarity?
I do honestly think a lot of people on that side would commit suicide if Trump was killed, yes.
Correct
I think after the bandage comes off you're going to see accidental su*cides from people trying to copycat themselves
Maybe we'll get to find out one of these days.
Cult.
Sheep go baaah
best summary.
Not a cult...
Cults are when you show solidarity
When has solidarity resembled anything like this? Wearing a fake bandage is a strange way to show it, it's hyper focused on the leader as opposed to the movement. It reads more as devotion than solidarity.
This is the kind of thing you do for the kid that's feeling down about their injured appearance. For a supposed leader of the free world who brought the injury on themselves, it's definitely more like kissing the ring
I think they're trying to milk the sympathy card for all it's worth by wearing these bandages. Since Trump only got a cut on his ear and an innocent spectator was killed, the event isn't playing as well as it did for Reagan back in the day during his reelection campaign. Wearing big, bulky bandages, they're 'peacocking' to keep Trump's extremely mild injury fresh in everyone's mind.
Wearing something symbolic is not a strange way to show solidarity at all. It’s one of the most common ways to show solidarity.
Solidarity with a movement or organization is different than solidarity with a person.
Like everyone in your office might wear a company logo sometimes to show your affiliation, but if they all put on a bandaid everytime the boss got a paper cut it would seem a bit cultish.
Yeah, I bet they were wearing diapers in solidarity too 🙄
Devils advocate for the heck of it. Gonna be submerged in bad rep for this.
This is comparative to people wearing "I can't breathe" signs after Floyd or waving a pride flag to show solidarity. You just give them shit because you do t agree with them.
Sure they are all fucking stupid for not seeing the obvious flaws in their idol. But giving them shit for a pretty rational way of showing support to their idol is not the right use of your energy.
You are participating in the fragmentation of your nation by pouring your hate into simple stuff like this.
For all I care go ahead. I'm European.
Hear me out, showing solidarity to a slave owner attacked by his slave is different than showing solidarity to a slave who was just beaten. The power dynamic should not be ignored
Hear me out...
I'm sorry, could you speak into my other non-assassinated ear? Thank you
But giving them shit for a pretty rational way of showing support to their idol is not the right use of your energy.
Laughing at idiots is never not the right use of my energy, thank you very much.
You are participating in the fragmentation of your nation by pouring your hate into simple stuff like this.
I'll feel guilty about it when it isn't fascists I'm fragmenting out of my country. If anything, I'm proud to make those fucks uncomfortable in my country.
Who's giving them shit for the way they are showing their support and not just for who they are supporting? 🤨
If you support a tyrannical moron, even if the way you show it is rational, I'm still gonna give you shit for supporting a tyrannical moron.
The method of showing support might be similar to something like the George Floyd demonstrations. But I'm not giving them shit for their method, I'm doing it because of who they're showing support for. If somebody wore a bandage on their ear in solidarity with an innocent person who was shot in that spot by cops, I'd applaud them.
And as for fragmenting our nation, there is no tolerance available for fascists and their supporters. They choose to split us apart when they vote for someone like Trump who targets the vulnerable in our society.
One guy died as a result of police oppression. The other got his ear cut for being an asshole.
• One is solidarity as a memorial.
• One is solidarity with an idiot.
SAME THING EVERYONE!
Thank you for being willing to stick your neck out there and say what you feel and see.
On social media, especially sites where voting seems to happen in packs, it's risky to have a counter opinion. Too many people just don't say how they feel if it's counter to the mainstream, and then their voices are completely drowned out.
Perhaps your idea is more mainstream than you know but those who share it don't have a willingness to jump into the fire, leaving those with more extreme positions thinking they have agreement with most when they don't.
This is comparative to people wearing “I can’t breathe” signs after Floyd or waving a pride flag to show solidarity. You just give them shit because you do t agree with them.
i mean yeah, except if floyd was just, moderately bruised, and wasn't killed.
Like it's still bad, but he barely got hit, so it's literally just a flesh wound.
No, your analogy would require people having fake knees choking them out, which is as ridiculous as the ear patches. But what do you expect from people who wear a 3d model of their god being killed everywhere they go.
Has a shit grasp of logical fallacies, much less elementary logic
I'm European
Hunh. Did not see that coming.
You are absolutely correct. The left is just as guilty of tribalism as the right.
Nah. That's not true at all.
There are tons and tons of videos on social media of people literally praying to Trump.
We don't do shit like that.
Remember they are devout republicans.
There is a lot of truth to it. Just criticize or bring up one of the many objectively bad things Biden has done and then wait for the Blue MAGA individuals to come out of the woodwork telling you he's "the most progressive president in modern history" and that he deserves our unwavering support just because he has a (D) next to his name.
I'm sure a lot of this is rooted in fear around him losing the election, but these people have their heads buried in the sand and can't see that the Democrats are handing the election to Trump just like they did in 2016 because they'd rather maintain the status quo and push right wing candidates like Clinton and Biden than help the American people by allowing a real progressive into the office.
There's a huge difference between saying someone is doing good, and literally praying to them in their absence. Like, have you seen the videos of people filming themselves praying to Donald trump to free them of ? They exist.
Because the left is always wearing Biden branded clothing?
THE LEFT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT WEARING BIDEN BRANDED CLOTHING THAT IS NOT THE LEFT BIDEN IS NOT LEFT FUCK
Edit: I am sorry for yelling but seriously the left starts at anticapitalism. Biden is just another right wing ghoul
I know. That was the point of my comment. Chill bro, it's ok.
Apologies, I am terrible at detecting sarcasm when I am sober and I was very not sober
All good man, no worries
The left used their brain and all come to the conclusion that Trump is a shitty person all on their own, they didn't get their words from Fox News or their Republican cult leader
Classic sheep behavior. Always thinking for themselves
sheep is led by a shepherd, people who make their thoughts on their own are the opposite of a sheep. You need to educate yourself more, at your current level of intelligence, you'll swallow anything the Republican shit out
Is this written by chatgpt? Lol wtf
This timeline is so broken. I can't believe that the USA may well vote this idocracy into power.
America:
FFS. They really are willing to eat his shit straight from his asshole.
It’s all fucking weird.
Almost like it's a mental illness or cult... But nope, perfectly normal. You are the one that's crazy! You should wear more diapers and ear patches about that.
Posers. REAL Trump fans would have a friend shoot their ear with an AR from range first.
/s, obviously. We all know they don't have friends.
"Even leading Republicans said yesterday that things went a little too far when they had to publicly repudiate the actions of a delegate who was handing out adhesive bandages marked with Purple Hearts to mock Mr. Kerry's war wounds."
"The bandages, distributed by Morton Blackwell of Arlington, Va., included a message that read, "It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it.""
It's almost like the party has always been batshit crazy. Speaks volumes of a large segment of the American population tbh.
And Kyle Gass can't crack a mild joke about it...
Van Gogh enthusiasts are outraged.
As a nurse this bandage trump showed up with looks totally like it is for show only. I would bet real money, that no healthcare professional was near this bandage and it was probably a PR person who sticked stuck this on him.
Stuck*
Sticked:stuck::hanged:hung
Oh no! You exposed me as a non native English speaker. What will I do now?
Hopefully, you'll know that "stuck" is the correct term? 🤷🏽♂️
I thought that too, it almost looks like a piece of telfa taped to his ear.
I was hoping he'd have a glasscock dressing.
Can't wait to see some daring journalist ask Trump in a filmed interview to see the scar. I assume Trump will classify that under the "that's too personal" category of lies he doesn't want to defend.
Imagine how mortifying it would be to have a legitimate ear injury this week.
As long as you don't tell your doctor to make the patch as big as possible like trump did, you should be fine in most cases. This looks more like the size of bandage you would get after ripping your whole ear off.
Monkey see monkey do
What a bunch of nut jobs, holy shit. They're actually turning America into a gigantic parody of itself.
.......you new here? And by "here" I mean Earth.
I'm just surprised how they keep one-upping each other!
Not like politicians were listening to us anyway, no need to cover your ears.
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
The previous verse says hand or forehead but close enough
If there is an anti-Christ, this dude has to be the closest we’ve got to it
Limp dick cucks copying a gereatric nepo baby for popularity points.
This is just weird
But are they doing it after shooting their ears with an AR-15* and my soon-to-be-sold commemorative 5.56mm Trump bullets (with tiny Trump fistbump engraving on the casing)? /s
Rifle sold separately
Can we not waste medical supplies for no fucking reason?
Tbf, a few of those look like napkins from the hot dog stand
🥾😛 "look how much we love the sensual flavor of your boots, Baddy Daddy Trump. Will you fuck our wife's next, pretty please?🔥💗🔥💗🔥💗"
shout from the back"Mine first!!!"
"You don't even need to fuck mine, just tell me she's a hog!"
-Rafael "Ted" Cruz
What level of dick sucking is this?
About 3" and Toad shaped
I was thinking more dick riding, but sucking works also.
Emulation for acceptance. Kids do this. It is pathetic in adults.
lol you don’t think adults do things to show solidarity?
Yup they do, and I was saying this is not that...
Grown ass motherfuckers behave like teenage bieber fan girls.
And they own guns and are full of hate
Thank god he wasn't shot in the lip they'd have to wear masks
We deserve to be wiped out by global warming
Absolutely ridiculous
Ear diapers.
Remember that time a bunch representatives wore bandages over their assholes because it was stylish to match Louis XIV's anal fistula bandage back in the late 1600s? Seems like they really think the have the Sun King again, the self-titled center of the universe
It must be uncomfortable wearing a fucking maxi pad on your ear all day long.
Be extra careful not to hurt your ear this week, you won't be able to bandage it
This might be the peak. I can't imagine how we'll ever have a more Not The Onion article.
Peak cult bullshit.
Nah, if he has a stroke and half his face doesn't work I expect a non-zero number of his cultists to have half their face paralyzed in solidarity.
You are most likely invoking a "hold my beer" moment.
I came here to laugh at the ridicule of the The Onion's story, only realize, to my horror, that it's not The Onion...
sign of love
Sounds pretty gay to me
Imagine what it would look like if Trump was shot in the dick.
it’s amazing how much the context on this sentence has shifted inside of a week.
What was that fairy tale where people disguised their faces to look ugly in order to avoid upsetting their monarch?
Sounds a little like the emporer's new clothes to me.
Of all the dick sucking moves you could do………… I am amazed at how eager they toss the salad.
They are wearing ear diapers like sleepy Don because they too have shit for brains.
Tell me you're a moron without telling me you're a moron...
See monkey do monkey.
Lol
Imagine what they would have done if the bullet struck. Would they have also drank the metaphorical Kool aid in solidarity? That would have been convenient.
all I see is ear masks
Their heads are as soft as their little impotent penises.
Apparently ear bandages are the new armbands...
no, this is not a personality cult at all... nope nope nope
every person that has to wear a bandage on their right ear for whatever reason are probably screaming "FUCK" very loudly thanks to this.
Our species sucks.
"Me too Me too" heh. Monkey see
Wankers....
I fucking knew this shit would happen.
These fuckers are so tribal
We need to see his ear
Lmao
Lol I bet Trump absolutely hates this
No, I'm sure he sees it as a sign that they like him, which he ravenously craves.
A sign that also happens the be a reminder that everyone else hates him so much they want him dead
Kind of like making a cross the symbol of Christianity?
100 years from now in a Tchurch™...
"and now, my brothers and sisters in Trump, we sing in praise of His Holy Orangeness and place the sacrament of The Bandage upon our ear."
"Followed by the ceremonial grabbing of the pussy."
Depends, is his bleeding ear a symbol of eternal life and forgiveness of sins, too?
I find the comparison to religion kind of laughable. As full of himself Trump is I do not think he shares Christ's confidence of heavenly ascendance. He sure as fuck doesn't want to die, but especially not as a sacrifice for the sins of his followers.
The comparison to religion is very apt, considering how Trump's followers worship him.
Trump does not have any interest in sacrificing himself for his followers.
I'm not convinced he enjoys being reminded of his brush with death.
Actually, he seems to relish in it.
(These are actual shoes he's selling.)
Like most narcissists, he'll gladly take any opportunity to get attention by being a victim.
But, no, he has no interest in sacrificing himself for his followers. That point is irrelevant - I'm pointing out the aspect of worshipping a person, not the goodness or badness of that person.
I’m pointing out the aspect of worshipping a person, not the goodness or badness of that person.
Lmao, that's not what I'm saying. He loves attention, absolutely. I'm commenting on his personal feelings about being shot at and wounded, not his feelings of being adored. Trump talks a big game about violence but can't stomach being a part of it himself. He famously dodged the draft by faking bone spurs and has called wounded and disabled veterans 'disgusting'. I don't think he enjoys people highlighting the fact he almost died by drawing attention to his injury from it.
He likes being able to say he was the victim of a shooting, but he likely does not see actually getting hit a flattering quality. Like for the shoe, he didn't even pick the famous photo from that day, he picked an objectively worse one where his ear isn't even shown and he's posing just like he does at every rally. It it weren't for a dribble of blood on his cheek this picture could be mistaken for any other day of his campaign.
No, I don't think he enjoys people taping gauze on their ears in reference to his injury.
I'd like to think it annoys him, I just doubt it does.
I think the only thing Trump hates is not being the centre of attention.
That and being told "no" to anything.
Really makes you wonder what they would have done if he was shot through the head.
Why was it so hard to press the back button out of the BBC?
Like these guys:
Bunch of pussies. I'll give Trump credit. He actually experienced it, they didn't.
But it didn't work! Splinter rose to the occasion. In our instance he wants to ruin pretty much everyone's lives sure, but he's in splinters shoes now lol.
The fact that this was posted and there's more than one comment that's not just straight out hate is so refreshing. I switched here due to the supposed amount of bots on Reddit swaying opinions on products allegedly. But now I'm staying here because truly the bigger problem is how politics are inescapable on there. Thank you Lemmy for allowing people to actually speak and not argue constantly. Opinions are okay, have a discussion but the constant pitch forks being thrown on reddit for literally anything is insanity
I don't know what's dumber: This or listening to Democrats try and convince me I didn't see our esteemed president's brain melt in public on national television.
Both sides have their cultist devotees. That's how we got into this mess.
I'm the odd man out here. But I don't see the issue here. If the shoe was on the other foot and Biden got hit in the ear, and the Democrats did this to show support to Biden people here wouldn't deride them as they do the Republicans here.
There's many things these politicians deserve criticism for, solidarity for someone having been hurt isn't among them.
If Harris got cancer we wouldn't mock senators wearing little pink ribbons.
Wearing a ribbon is a lot different than wearing a pillow looking bandage. It feels a lot like a grift to sell product, especially if the My Pillow Guy was selling them.
If the situation were reversed and Biden was the one who got grazed I'd still mock the ear bandages, because they're stupid. You could just as easily wear an orange ribbon for mass shooting/ gun violence awareness.
A bullet nicked his ear BFD. How about solidarity for Corey Comperatore, the guy who actually died at the event?
If Harris got cancer Republicans would mock her for it. Don't pretend otherwise.
Uh oh. You brought logic to a political post on Lemmy.
Straight into the has chamber with you. The chamber is painted in rainbow colors. So its fine.
I'm fine with the down votes. Dissenting views are important even when unpopular or wrong. Many times in history those dissents have been used as a beacon, showing the way for future generations like Benjamin Curtis's in Dred Scott.
If on occasion it means I lose fake Internet point for ensuring spaces don't become echo chambers, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
But these sheep can't wear masks? Give me a fucking break.
To be fair, they need the bandage just as much as trump does.
Like. A day or two after the attempt he was out golfing and didn't have a bandage or anything.
I think it was just a small nick and the blood thinners he's likely on just makes you bleed like crazy since they prevent clotting. A small scratch looks like a war wound, and would explain why there was blood everywhere but he still has a functional ear.
Like, if he really got shot in the ear, he'd be missing a part of his ear like in Preacher. It won't just heal back.
Dude got a scratch and is playing it up.
He's a WWE Hall of Famer. I would not be surprised if he was blading.
Trump is on blood thinners? Why?
...
He's in his late 70s, doesn't exercise, eats like shit, and is drastically overweight...
Like, it's one of those things that are just safe to assume. Blood thinners arent really that rare for people 30 years younger than either candidate.
I wonder what his theoretical are is lol.
His blood is thick with hamburger juice.
A lot of people that age, with his OBVIOUS unhealthy BMI are on blood thinner as prevention more than anything else.
To prevent strokes and heart attacks. It's pretty common.
Well...
There isn't a fourth monkey covering its nose.
There is, however, a fourth monkey covering his crotch. "Do no evil"
The masks prevent them from quaffing their own farts all day long.
LOL what the fuck. i've never seen a more subservient bitchass group of bootlicking sheep than republicans
They really are strange.
Apparently, the other people are sheep. These are the free-thinking freedom loving people! /s
Dear God man ... this is crazy cringe.
Projection is how Republicans roll. Remember when MAGA accused Joe Biden of wearing diapers and they found out their dear orange felon/rapist cult leader wore them instead, and started wearing them?
LOL WHAT
It's not as weird as the diapers.
I think it's pretty close. Both are super fucking weird and pathetic.
Don't knock diapers till you try em tho
And yet they’re the ones screeching about “alpha males and the loss of masculinity in America.”
which is hilarious, because if you're whining about someone "taking away your masculinity," (OR if you're having panic attacks about someone else's masculinity) then you were never masculine in the first place.
Fragile masculinity.
Hierarchies gonna hypocritize.
But remember, they hate being called sheep.
Just a reminder, jd vance, trumps newest vp pick, has on many occasions been quoted in the past of saying "I didn't vote for trump", "I never liked trump", and "I'm a never-trump guy".
NOW he sings trumps praises, and kisses trumps ass.
vance is just another vapid muppet who'll get thrown under the bus the instant shit goes sideways and trump needs someone to blame for...whatever. just like all the other used-to-be-never-trumpers who are now fighting over who gets to be first to be facialed by trump
His name has an extra syllable, he might be counting on Trumpanzees being unable to make a nice little chant like they did for Pence.
Vance literally called Trump "America's Hitler" in a now deleted tweet.
Also so many are Christian and say shit like "the lord is my shepard" in the same breath that they call other people "sheep."
Makes me think of the court at Versailles all pretending to have anal fistulas after Louis XIV had surgery for one.
I’m gonna take your word, I ain’t clicking on anal fistulas.
"I'M NOT THE MESSIAH!"
He's just a naughty boy!
"I say you are Lord and I should know, I've followed a few"
"HE IS THE MESSIAH!"
#NotACult
So say we all.
Don't they know a bandage on the right ear means you are gay?
I guess I will explain it for people
This is actually a thing…with piercings
Getting the right ear pieced, also called the gay ear, is a way to signal to others that you are gay. I have no idea if it’s still a thing but growing up if you were getting a piercing the rule was left or both
I have two in my right, one in my left, and have been told many times that its the same thing. More in the right ear apparently makes me gay. Im definitely straight, but I kept my piercings like this for the last 15 years, and wouldnt you know it, the only people telling me thats gay are other straight people. This is certainly just personal experiences, but my personal experience is that its not a 'gay rule' as much as its a 'homophobe rule.' Like you said, pretty sure it was a style or signal in the gay community in the 80s or something, but any more it just feels like an urban legend perpetuated by bigots.
Honestly it just reminds me of the moral panic over "cock ring Ken."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring_Magic_Ken
(also amusing in this context to note that his earring is in his left ear, so I'm not sure even the homophobes were consistent about this)
I actually always figured it was based in the same logic as flagging. Beware; extremely NSFW link about sex and BDSM.
Do you ever punish those straight people for their mistake by humping their buttholes?
Yes.
Honestly, I don't blame straight people that caught up with the "right ear" thing in the 80's for that they haven't caught up with the fact that it's expired.
Or, as my mom so concisely put it when I was a child, "Right is wrong if you're straight."
She voted for trump, didn't she?
Progressive-leaning lesbian and vehemently anti-Trump, actually. She was very much a part of LGBTQ+ culture in the 90s, and the ear piercing thing was a part of it at the time. Though it really has fallen to the wayside nowadays.
Is this still a thing? I could have sworn it fell away like ten years ago.
Then again, I wasn't sure certain types of pants would ever come back. RETURN TO US, JNCO!
Is 40 years old too old to start wearing JNCO and Sketchers again?
Wear JNCOs and healies and then you can look like you're floating around like a Russian dancer
Nope.
I heard it was the left ear, or any piercing, or it was the right ear, or it was only certain kinds of piercings.
None of it was true.
This was never a very reliable thing ever and certainly isn't anymore. The joke the OP makes is in reference to what it was used for, which was an attempt to attack / stigmatize anyone who did choose their right ear for a piercing perpetrated by small minds. Many of those small minds have now grown into the hateful old bigots that are the base of the GOP.
You should fact check these bigots then
https://pridepalace.lgbt/blogs/news/which-ear-is-the-gay-ear
So they're fine with cloth on the face as long as it's completely unnecessary?
Seems everyone should have realized by now what a weak, sad, and pathetic group the Republican party is.
You mean the American Fascist Party?
Not to be confused with the American Nazi Party. But I forget what the difference between the two is these days
Yes, you two are in agreement. You're saying the same thing.
Republikkklowns
I can’t decide if this is more or less weird than wearing a diaper in support of Trum…no…it’s less weird…right?
Are we 100% sure they're not also wearing diapers?
No! And that’s why I decided the diapers were weirder. Those folks had to go out of their way to announce they were wearing diapers.
I mean what even is the point of wearing a diaper in support of Trump if you don’t tell everyone?
I did not look at it from that angle, but you are 100% correct; the diapers are weirder. lol
I'm pretty sure. There would be no end of them telling/showing you.
Since these people aren't treating any ear injury, you might as well call these "ear diapers."
That is consistent with their usage of chin diapers that also had no medical use.
I'll give it to you, this is the most a Not The Onion post has made me go "wait, is that The Onion"?
Good job. I think.
I genuinely don't know how satirists are supposed to make a living any more.
Oh, did you not see the commemorative sneakers he's selling?
Nah, that I believed. Trump shilling useless crap is extremely plausible.
The people that hate virtue signaling love signaling the dumbest virtues.
They like playing the victim card, then turn away from people who truly are victims.
You think if the shooter hadn't missed they'd be removing their heads in solidarity?
I do honestly think a lot of people on that side would commit suicide if Trump was killed, yes.
Correct
I think after the bandage comes off you're going to see accidental su*cides from people trying to copycat themselves
Maybe we'll get to find out one of these days.
Cult.
Sheep go baaah
best summary.
Not a cult...
Cults are when you show solidarity
When has solidarity resembled anything like this? Wearing a fake bandage is a strange way to show it, it's hyper focused on the leader as opposed to the movement. It reads more as devotion than solidarity.
This is the kind of thing you do for the kid that's feeling down about their injured appearance. For a supposed leader of the free world who brought the injury on themselves, it's definitely more like kissing the ring
I think they're trying to milk the sympathy card for all it's worth by wearing these bandages. Since Trump only got a cut on his ear and an innocent spectator was killed, the event isn't playing as well as it did for Reagan back in the day during his reelection campaign. Wearing big, bulky bandages, they're 'peacocking' to keep Trump's extremely mild injury fresh in everyone's mind.
Wearing something symbolic is not a strange way to show solidarity at all. It’s one of the most common ways to show solidarity.
Solidarity with a movement or organization is different than solidarity with a person.
Like everyone in your office might wear a company logo sometimes to show your affiliation, but if they all put on a bandaid everytime the boss got a paper cut it would seem a bit cultish.
Yeah, I bet they were wearing diapers in solidarity too 🙄
Devils advocate for the heck of it. Gonna be submerged in bad rep for this.
This is comparative to people wearing "I can't breathe" signs after Floyd or waving a pride flag to show solidarity. You just give them shit because you do t agree with them.
Sure they are all fucking stupid for not seeing the obvious flaws in their idol. But giving them shit for a pretty rational way of showing support to their idol is not the right use of your energy.
You are participating in the fragmentation of your nation by pouring your hate into simple stuff like this.
For all I care go ahead. I'm European.
Hear me out, showing solidarity to a slave owner attacked by his slave is different than showing solidarity to a slave who was just beaten. The power dynamic should not be ignored
I'm sorry, could you speak into my other non-assassinated ear? Thank you
Laughing at idiots is never not the right use of my energy, thank you very much.
I'll feel guilty about it when it isn't fascists I'm fragmenting out of my country. If anything, I'm proud to make those fucks uncomfortable in my country.
Who's giving them shit for the way they are showing their support and not just for who they are supporting? 🤨
If you support a tyrannical moron, even if the way you show it is rational, I'm still gonna give you shit for supporting a tyrannical moron.
The method of showing support might be similar to something like the George Floyd demonstrations. But I'm not giving them shit for their method, I'm doing it because of who they're showing support for. If somebody wore a bandage on their ear in solidarity with an innocent person who was shot in that spot by cops, I'd applaud them.
And as for fragmenting our nation, there is no tolerance available for fascists and their supporters. They choose to split us apart when they vote for someone like Trump who targets the vulnerable in our society.
One guy died as a result of police oppression. The other got his ear cut for being an asshole.
• One is solidarity as a memorial.
• One is solidarity with an idiot.
SAME THING EVERYONE!
Thank you for being willing to stick your neck out there and say what you feel and see.
On social media, especially sites where voting seems to happen in packs, it's risky to have a counter opinion. Too many people just don't say how they feel if it's counter to the mainstream, and then their voices are completely drowned out.
Perhaps your idea is more mainstream than you know but those who share it don't have a willingness to jump into the fire, leaving those with more extreme positions thinking they have agreement with most when they don't.
i mean yeah, except if floyd was just, moderately bruised, and wasn't killed.
Like it's still bad, but he barely got hit, so it's literally just a flesh wound.
No, your analogy would require people having fake knees choking them out, which is as ridiculous as the ear patches. But what do you expect from people who wear a 3d model of their god being killed everywhere they go.
Has a shit grasp of logical fallacies, much less elementary logic
Hunh. Did not see that coming.
You are absolutely correct. The left is just as guilty of tribalism as the right.
Nah. That's not true at all.
There are tons and tons of videos on social media of people literally praying to Trump.
We don't do shit like that.
Remember they are devout republicans.
There is a lot of truth to it. Just criticize or bring up one of the many objectively bad things Biden has done and then wait for the Blue MAGA individuals to come out of the woodwork telling you he's "the most progressive president in modern history" and that he deserves our unwavering support just because he has a (D) next to his name.
I'm sure a lot of this is rooted in fear around him losing the election, but these people have their heads buried in the sand and can't see that the Democrats are handing the election to Trump just like they did in 2016 because they'd rather maintain the status quo and push right wing candidates like Clinton and Biden than help the American people by allowing a real progressive into the office.
There's a huge difference between saying someone is doing good, and literally praying to them in their absence. Like, have you seen the videos of people filming themselves praying to Donald trump to free them of ? They exist.
Because the left is always wearing Biden branded clothing?
THE LEFT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT WEARING BIDEN BRANDED CLOTHING THAT IS NOT THE LEFT BIDEN IS NOT LEFT FUCK
Edit: I am sorry for yelling but seriously the left starts at anticapitalism. Biden is just another right wing ghoul
I know. That was the point of my comment. Chill bro, it's ok.
Apologies, I am terrible at detecting sarcasm when I am sober and I was very not sober
All good man, no worries
The left used their brain and all come to the conclusion that Trump is a shitty person all on their own, they didn't get their words from Fox News or their Republican cult leader
Classic sheep behavior. Always thinking for themselves
sheep is led by a shepherd, people who make their thoughts on their own are the opposite of a sheep. You need to educate yourself more, at your current level of intelligence, you'll swallow anything the Republican shit out
Is this written by chatgpt? Lol wtf
This timeline is so broken. I can't believe that the USA may well vote this idocracy into power.
America:
FFS. They really are willing to eat his shit straight from his asshole.
It’s all fucking weird.
Almost like it's a mental illness or cult... But nope, perfectly normal. You are the one that's crazy! You should wear more diapers and ear patches about that.
Posers. REAL Trump fans would have a friend shoot their ear with an AR from range first.
/s, obviously. We all know they don't have friends.
How the Turn Tables
For those out of the loop:
It's almost like the party has always been batshit crazy. Speaks volumes of a large segment of the American population tbh.
And Kyle Gass can't crack a mild joke about it...
Van Gogh enthusiasts are outraged.
As a nurse this bandage trump showed up with looks totally like it is for show only. I would bet real money, that no healthcare professional was near this bandage and it was probably a PR person who
stickedstuck this on him.Stuck*
Sticked:stuck::hanged:hung
Oh no! You exposed me as a non native English speaker. What will I do now?
Hopefully, you'll know that "stuck" is the correct term? 🤷🏽♂️
Don't worry plenty of native speakers would have written the same thing :P
Wouldn’t that make it correct?
Not until webster chimes in.
And I'm not switching to "sticked", so you'll need to crowdsource your etymological inertia from others.
Morphological dialectic momentum*
Non-standard but still correct.
No.
I thought that too, it almost looks like a piece of telfa taped to his ear. I was hoping he'd have a glasscock dressing.
Can't wait to see some daring journalist ask Trump in a filmed interview to see the scar. I assume Trump will classify that under the "that's too personal" category of lies he doesn't want to defend.
First diaper-wearing now this.
Imagine how mortifying it would be to have a legitimate ear injury this week.
As long as you don't tell your doctor to make the patch as big as possible like trump did, you should be fine in most cases. This looks more like the size of bandage you would get after ripping your whole ear off.
Monkey see monkey do
What a bunch of nut jobs, holy shit. They're actually turning America into a gigantic parody of itself.
.......you new here? And by "here" I mean Earth.
I'm just surprised how they keep one-upping each other!
Not like politicians were listening to us anyway, no need to cover your ears.
The previous verse says hand or forehead but close enough
If there is an anti-Christ, this dude has to be the closest we’ve got to it
Limp dick cucks copying a gereatric nepo baby for popularity points.
This is just weird
But are they doing it after shooting their ears with an AR-15* and my soon-to-be-sold commemorative 5.56mm Trump bullets (with tiny Trump fistbump engraving on the casing)? /s
Can we not waste medical supplies for no fucking reason?
Tbf, a few of those look like napkins from the hot dog stand
So the uniform starts with gold tennis shoes, gold diapers, and now an ear bandage. The GOP sure is putting sexy on display!!! https://www.dispatchesfromtrumpland.com/post/trump-fans-wear-golden-diapers-and-more-diaper-shirts-at-jersey-shore-rally
I would love to see someone wearing the whole uniform one day.
Tomorrow you'll be able to buy gold ear bandages for $500 a pop.
Only $500? Are they on sale?
That's what the price is reduced to if you buy one with a pair of full-priced shoes.
Tell me you're in a cult without telling me you're in a cult ffs!
Neon lights, noble prize, when the mirror speaks, the reflection lies
Best Monty Python movie.
🥾😛 "look how much we love the sensual flavor of your boots, Baddy Daddy Trump. Will you fuck our wife's next, pretty please?🔥💗🔥💗🔥💗"
shout from the back "Mine first!!!"
What level of dick sucking is this?
About 3" and Toad shaped
I was thinking more dick riding, but sucking works also.
Emulation for acceptance. Kids do this. It is pathetic in adults.
lol you don’t think adults do things to show solidarity?
Yup they do, and I was saying this is not that...
Grown ass motherfuckers behave like teenage bieber fan girls.
And they own guns and are full of hate
Thank god he wasn't shot in the lip they'd have to wear masks
We deserve to be wiped out by global warming
Absolutely ridiculous
Ear diapers.
Remember that time a bunch representatives wore bandages over their assholes because it was stylish to match Louis XIV's anal fistula bandage back in the late 1600s? Seems like they really think the have the Sun King again, the self-titled center of the universe
It must be uncomfortable wearing a fucking maxi pad on your ear all day long.
Be extra careful not to hurt your ear this week, you won't be able to bandage it
This might be the peak. I can't imagine how we'll ever have a more Not The Onion article.
Peak cult bullshit.
Nah, if he has a stroke and half his face doesn't work I expect a non-zero number of his cultists to have half their face paralyzed in solidarity.
You are most likely invoking a "hold my beer" moment.
I came here to laugh at the ridicule of the The Onion's story, only realize, to my horror, that it's not The Onion...
Sounds pretty gay to me
Imagine what it would look like if Trump was shot in the dick.
it’s amazing how much the context on this sentence has shifted inside of a week.
What was that fairy tale where people disguised their faces to look ugly in order to avoid upsetting their monarch?
Sounds a little like the emporer's new clothes to me.
Of all the dick sucking moves you could do………… I am amazed at how eager they toss the salad.
I just....ugh
"Ohh oooh, Pick me, daddy! Daddy me, daddy over here, daddy!"
Are they all wearing diapers as well?
They are wearing ear diapers like sleepy Don because they too have shit for brains.
Tell me you're a moron without telling me you're a moron...
See monkey do monkey.
Lol
Imagine what they would have done if the bullet struck. Would they have also drank the metaphorical Kool aid in solidarity? That would have been convenient.
all I see is ear masks
Their heads are as soft as their little impotent penises.
Apparently ear bandages are the new armbands...
no, this is not a personality cult at all... nope nope nope
every person that has to wear a bandage on their right ear for whatever reason are probably screaming "FUCK" very loudly thanks to this.
Our species sucks.
"Me too Me too" heh. Monkey see
Wankers....
I fucking knew this shit would happen.
These fuckers are so tribal
We need to see his ear
Lmao
Lol I bet Trump absolutely hates this
No, I'm sure he sees it as a sign that they like him, which he ravenously craves.
A sign that also happens the be a reminder that everyone else hates him so much they want him dead
Kind of like making a cross the symbol of Christianity?
100 years from now in a Tchurch™...
"Followed by the ceremonial grabbing of the pussy."
Depends, is his bleeding ear a symbol of eternal life and forgiveness of sins, too?
I find the comparison to religion kind of laughable. As full of himself Trump is I do not think he shares Christ's confidence of heavenly ascendance. He sure as fuck doesn't want to die, but especially not as a sacrifice for the sins of his followers.
The comparison to religion is very apt, considering how Trump's followers worship him.
Trump does not have any interest in sacrificing himself for his followers.
I'm not convinced he enjoys being reminded of his brush with death.
Actually, he seems to relish in it.
(These are actual shoes he's selling.)
Like most narcissists, he'll gladly take any opportunity to get attention by being a victim.
But, no, he has no interest in sacrificing himself for his followers. That point is irrelevant - I'm pointing out the aspect of worshipping a person, not the goodness or badness of that person.
Lmao, that's not what I'm saying. He loves attention, absolutely. I'm commenting on his personal feelings about being shot at and wounded, not his feelings of being adored. Trump talks a big game about violence but can't stomach being a part of it himself. He famously dodged the draft by faking bone spurs and has called wounded and disabled veterans 'disgusting'. I don't think he enjoys people highlighting the fact he almost died by drawing attention to his injury from it.
He likes being able to say he was the victim of a shooting, but he likely does not see actually getting hit a flattering quality. Like for the shoe, he didn't even pick the famous photo from that day, he picked an objectively worse one where his ear isn't even shown and he's posing just like he does at every rally. It it weren't for a dribble of blood on his cheek this picture could be mistaken for any other day of his campaign.
No, I don't think he enjoys people taping gauze on their ears in reference to his injury.
I'd like to think it annoys him, I just doubt it does.
I think the only thing Trump hates is not being the centre of attention.
That and being told "no" to anything.
Really makes you wonder what they would have done if he was shot through the head.
Why was it so hard to press the back button out of the BBC?
Like these guys:
Bunch of pussies. I'll give Trump credit. He actually experienced it, they didn't.
Omg! Trumpfus is Splinter! Shredder came to him later ...https://y.yarn.co/d9a957e8-eaac-4a29-9a5c-d9344416b5f0.mp4
But it didn't work! Splinter rose to the occasion. In our instance he wants to ruin pretty much everyone's lives sure, but he's in splinters shoes now lol.
The fact that this was posted and there's more than one comment that's not just straight out hate is so refreshing. I switched here due to the supposed amount of bots on Reddit swaying opinions on products allegedly. But now I'm staying here because truly the bigger problem is how politics are inescapable on there. Thank you Lemmy for allowing people to actually speak and not argue constantly. Opinions are okay, have a discussion but the constant pitch forks being thrown on reddit for literally anything is insanity
I don't know what's dumber: This or listening to Democrats try and convince me I didn't see our esteemed president's brain melt in public on national television.
Both sides have their cultist devotees. That's how we got into this mess.
I'm the odd man out here. But I don't see the issue here. If the shoe was on the other foot and Biden got hit in the ear, and the Democrats did this to show support to Biden people here wouldn't deride them as they do the Republicans here.
There's many things these politicians deserve criticism for, solidarity for someone having been hurt isn't among them.
If Harris got cancer we wouldn't mock senators wearing little pink ribbons.
Wearing a ribbon is a lot different than wearing a pillow looking bandage. It feels a lot like a grift to sell product, especially if the My Pillow Guy was selling them.
If the situation were reversed and Biden was the one who got grazed I'd still mock the ear bandages, because they're stupid. You could just as easily wear an orange ribbon for mass shooting/ gun violence awareness.
A bullet nicked his ear BFD. How about solidarity for Corey Comperatore, the guy who actually died at the event?
If Harris got cancer Republicans would mock her for it. Don't pretend otherwise.
Uh oh. You brought logic to a political post on Lemmy.
Straight into the has chamber with you. The chamber is painted in rainbow colors. So its fine.
I'm fine with the down votes. Dissenting views are important even when unpopular or wrong. Many times in history those dissents have been used as a beacon, showing the way for future generations like Benjamin Curtis's in Dred Scott.
If on occasion it means I lose fake Internet point for ensuring spaces don't become echo chambers, that's a price I'm willing to pay.