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So I was at a flea market yesterday… and there was a guy selling MAGA stuff inside…

Uzumaki Goku

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There was a card game shop and a video game store I wanted to check (got Sonic Colors Ultimate for $20) but a few cubics up was a guy selling MAGA merchandise,

Trump shirts "do you miss me yet?" "Let's go Brandon." Even had Fox News on TV. what was disturbing is I saw people in there with kids. Those poor kids are being indoctrinated.

I didn't make a scene because I didn't want to get kicked out but I was utterly sickened by this.
 
Birdie

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God I miss my local fleamarket, they used to have so many awesome games you could trade for cheap, they had cards (some fake lol), and bootleg anime DVDs.

Got closed down cuz drugs or something but I mean that comes with the territory. MAGA stuff at a fleamarket seems obvious though not sure why you'd be shocked.
 
NealMcCauley

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Sounds like a flea market. Did you take a stroll through the stands selling authentic dvds of movies not officially released yet?
 
nded

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In my experience there's usually someone selling questionable to outright bigoted shit at a flea market. Trump stuff is just the latest brand of that.
 
shadowsdarknes

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I mean.. even in liberal Washington DC can you see stands selling MAGA stuff.

This kind of crap is everywhere. And here in Florida, it's around every corner.
 
Dark Knight

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Uzumaki Goku said:
Those poor kids are being indoctrinated.
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I think about how common this is now. Mentally unstable "politics as team sports" people everywhere are transferring their baggage to their children.

Basically, it's too easy to have children and too hard to raise them correctly or appropriately. Morons who are unable or unwilling to do right by their offspring are just spitting them out without a single critical thought about how their own warped hang-ups are deeply inappropriate to be sharing with them. All we can do is hope that the better angels of social media and internet culture are getting through to impressionable teens in ways their parents failed to.
 
Orayn

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A large portion of small town America had dedicated brick and mortar "Trump stores" for several years. A lot of that has moved to smaller venues, but some of them are probably still around.
 
Seirith

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I'm not sure why this surprises you, even though Biden won almost half the country voted for him and most would vote for him again.
 
linkboy

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There was an idiot selling that shit at my local fair (I live in one of the most conservative counties in California, so I wasn't surprised).

My wife and I just laughed.
 
ProtomanNeo

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To each their own in terms of what they are offended by but that just sounds like a flea market to me.
 
Damaniel

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The last time I was in a flea market (many years ago), there was a vendor selling nothing but boxes of Sudafed.

Flea markets are just like that - a lot of weird people selling weird stuff. In my town, the MAGA chud selling his t-shirts sets up shop on the roadside near the largest strip mall on the main street. I've never seen him sell anything as I've driven by, but I see enough 'Fuck Biden' and 'Let's Go Brandon' flags around to know that he must do pretty brisk business.
 
Dr. Monkey

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You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.
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This was a great comment in 2015, but that "Not America" crew are destroying rights and institutions all over the place.

They sure have a lot of reach and power for "Not America."
 
Katbobo

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The small silver lining (it still massively sucks) is that it's not impossible for those kids to break out of it. I was raised incredibly conservative, and once I hit college and actually got exposed to other views, I quickly saw the holes in how i'd been raised and told the world works, and radically changed my views. This certainly won't be the case for most people, but at some point we all become our own people and that won't necessarily line up with the worldview our parents brainwashed into thinking was real.
 
Galaxea

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Uzumaki Goku said:
There was a card game shop and a video game store I wanted to check (got Sonic Colors Ultimate for $20) but a few cubics up was a guy selling MAGA merchandise,

Trump shirts "do you miss me yet?" "Let's go Brandon." Even had Fox News on TV. what was disturbing is I saw people in there with kids. Those poor kids are being indoctrinated.

I didn't make a scene because I didn't want to get kicked out but I was utterly sickened by this.
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Which flea market? I was up in MT Dora FL and I saw the same garbage. I saw a trump 2024 revenge setup where a guy and his son were hanging out at. Garbage humans.
 
bananab

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I remember even like 30 years ago seeing all kinds of Nazi stuff and weird racist novelty items at flea markets. MAGA if anything seems kinda tame in comparison to some of the shit that'd surprise you amongst the ninja stars and Budweiser beach towels.
 
Aztechnology

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Dark Knight said:
I think about how common this is now. Mentally unstable "politics as team sports" people everywhere are transferring their baggage to their children.

Basically, it's too easy to have children and too hard to raise them correctly or appropriately. Morons who are unable or unwilling to do right by their offspring are just spitting them out without a single critical thought about how their own warped hang-ups are deeply inappropriate to be sharing with them. All we can do is hope that the better angels of social media and internet culture are getting through to impressionable teens in ways their parents failed to.
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Absolutely nailed it. It's become a conservative cultural foundation block. It really is the politics as sports
 
Truly Gargantuan

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Shrug. It's a flea market. You don't go to some place called a flea market without expecting some questionable shit there.
 
SbnaS

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I went to a flea market near me a year or so ago and the same table was selling swastika items along with a menorah.
 

ParanormalFupa

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Not uncommon to find somebody selling Nazi and confederate merchandise at a flea market. Usually next to the knives and porn.
 
Ouroboros

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Going to my parents I always pass up a mobile trump merch trailer. I always wished there was a giant puddle next to it so I could drive and splash them. But it's never raining when I pass them. Fucking disgusting man.
 
HardRojo

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I would pass by and say something like "And they claim that this stuff isn't a cult, haha wow!".
 

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Well, I'm sure they paid for their spot like every other vendor. If they aren't selling illegal items or things illegally obtained, I don't see the problem. I'm not into that shit but I've learned to coexist with things that don't fit within my dome of what's acceptable and what's not.
 
NickatNite

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Next time put this on their table.

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jvm

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Flea market?

Try a main tourist-y drag of a big coastal city in Florida. Was just at such a place, and several shops with "TRUMP 2024 HE'LL BE BACK" and similar merchandise. And not just inside - on racks out front and in the main windows. It was bad.

The last day of holiday, I ran some errands while family packed and took a final walk on beach. Spouse told me they were glad I'd not gone out on the beach - two tents were already set up with four flagpoles and a total of 8 pro-Trump flags.

Yeah - given how crappy the travel back home was that day, probably for the best that I didn't start my day with that.
 
BubbaKrumpz

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Ehh, it's trash but it's a Flea Market so not totally out of the norm. I do miss going to the Berryessa Flea Market in San Jose. I used to go often with my pops just to get some chili and lime pistachios and a large coke to walk around with.
 
VanWinkle

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Is that a surprise? I mean, I haven't been to a flea market in many years (and I don't have anything against them), but this seems right up a flea market's alley.
 

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If their parents are Trump voters then those poor kids have probably seen or heard a lot worse right at home.
 
PKrockin

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OP, you live in a bubble. I mean, you must know this by now, but just in case you didn't, you live in a bubble.
 
jvm

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Another area perhaps with some overlap: coin shows

During 2016-2020, the coin shows I attended (this is in the Southeast U.S.) were chock full of MAGA stuff. Not just fake coins and dollar bills with Trump's face on them, but stuff you could get lots of places too, like hats. A few people wearing red MAGA hats, of course. I figure vendors know they're turning away some folks, but perhaps the rapport with MAGA types is worth the loss of others.

Then 2021-2022, it's almost all gone. You can randomly find some stuff on a table here or there, but *poof* 99% of it vanished.

I am very curious to see what it's like if Trump announces he wants to run again. Is all that energy latent, just waiting to bubble up again in coin shows? Or did vendors get burned with the last round of stuff, some of which they probably ended up taking a loss on, that it's not worth it again?

Mind you, many coin show vendors appeared to be cutting back dramatically this past spring, selling stock to larger vendors, retiring, etc. Many of them weren't even going to do the new quarters series, although I do wonder how much of that could be because it's all based on famous women and launched with Maya Angelou... (Coin collectors are traditionally white men. And, yes, that describes me.)
 
HeySeuss

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Maybe it's a regional thing but I don't think I've ever been to a flea market that wasn't dominated by conservatives and now Maga chuds
 
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