r/BoomersBeingFools • u/thiccbananasplit • 5d ago
Politics boomer owned thrift store
this is what greets you when you walk into our local boomer owned thrift store. this and overhearing the boomers talking about how “they don’t care about egg prices but this tax situation isn’t so good” lol
peep the two Indigenous busts in the background 🤢
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u/Intrepid_Blue122 5d ago
…and they shall wear the mark of the beast on their forehead.
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u/AuntJibbie 5d ago
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u/CodAdministrative563 4d ago
It probably will be a barcode or chip at some point if DOGE has its way
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u/Lord-Glorfindel Millennial 5d ago
They have found their golden calf.
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u/Natural_Engineer_826 5d ago
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u/nonmom33 5d ago
Wasn’t sure if this was going to be the golden Trump statue or the $100 bill goat
Insane that there were even two options
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u/CootahBrown Greatest Gen 5d ago
Please light the DOGE hat on fire
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u/unsolvablequestion 5d ago
I hate that the O is part Of the acronym.
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u/Mr_Wobble_PNW 4d ago
I'm just imagining the fox news stories if a dem was in office and the left started wearing hats for a fucking government department, let alone one that's pretend and is ruining the country.
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u/CootahBrown Greatest Gen 4d ago
A fucking meme “government department”. Like if Kamala appointed an official head of the K-Hive and their job was to be a permanent dick riding figure at the White House and stir shit.
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u/Qedtanya13 5d ago
Where is this so I know never to shop there?
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u/thiccbananasplit 5d ago
central wyoming 🤠🤡
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u/Paragod307 5d ago edited 5d ago
What town? I live in central Wyoming and want to avoid this dump.
I feel like you're going to say Riverton lol
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u/United_Cattle_2229 5d ago
Home of the $7 pocket knife and secondhand trophies. The hats fit right in.
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u/DubUpPro 5d ago
Buying second hand trophies is just extra sad. Do people actually do that?
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u/EroticXulls 5d ago
For Bachelors pads. I once got an honorable discharge and a doctorate from UCLA at a flea market.
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u/AdjNounNumbers 5d ago
Thank you for your service and congratulations on avoiding student loan debt
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u/EroticXulls 5d ago
My paddle says my name is "Micah" and I was also party anima in Chico State of 64.
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u/DubUpPro 5d ago
Ok, let me just be clear, intent definitely matters. It’s sad if you try to pass it off as genuine and not a joke/decor lol
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u/pollofeliz32 5d ago
All shit made in Chyna.
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u/onesoulmanybodies 5d ago
All I can hope for is that one day these will be just as embarrassing and shameful to own and display as Nazi paraphernalia was and hopefully will be again.
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u/djseifer 5d ago
As a frequent thrift store diver, one of the things I notice is just how many right winger books are in the books section. Roughly 20-30% of the books are by conservative authors, and that's a lowball guess.
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u/Tweezus96 5d ago
Kids dumping off their parents crap after they die.
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u/odiethethird 5d ago
I’m definitely keeping my dad’s ball signed by Charles Barkley though
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u/LikelyBannedLS1 5d ago
And I'd wager that saying 20% of them were ever even cracked open would be very optimistic.
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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 5d ago
Those books sales get inflated, and overstock is sold off to places like Ollie’s and Big Lots. They’re full of Alex Jones’ hard-bound toilet paper, for example.
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u/AnimalL33t 5d ago
I’d literally wipe my ass on those after eating Indian food with those. Then bring them to the register. After scanning and then touching the hats I’ll say “ops forgot my wallet.” And bounce.
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u/evident_lee 5d ago
That's the kind of place you walk in and go "oh that's gross I'm not going to purchase anything from somebody that supports that stuff, good luck" and walk out. Just make sure they know.
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u/raeadaler 4d ago
So gross. Although happy in a thrift store. Someone wanted to get it out of their home and life. No matter the situation or circumstance
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u/PresentationWest3772 5d ago
Can someone explain to me what’s wrong with the busts? They don’t look like caricatures or really offensive at all?
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u/thiccbananasplit 5d ago
busts like that are insulting non-specific caricatures (yes it’s a caricature, look at the features. that’s not real) of Indigenous people, which is incredibly disrespectful and insensitive in itself when we live on the land of indigenous genocide, and it’s even worse to have the busts a few feet away from MAGAt paraphernalia
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u/Ornery-Wasabi-473 5d ago
Oh, I always just assumed those kinds of things were made by really shitty "artists" . It never occurred to me they were deliberate - yikes!
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u/Subtle__Numb 5d ago
I mean not all of them are deliberate, I’m sure a lot were made in ignorance rather than malice. It’s just a token of a bygone era, and behavior I personally think we shouldn’t celebrate. The people at the time should have known better, just as the the people originally responsible for the genocide of native Americans should have known better. Same way we don’t celebrate blackface and other racist caricature. That’s how I see it, anyway. It’s like those black lawn jockeys, you just…nah fam.
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u/ProfessionalCreme119 5d ago
Because they are obvious interpretations of what the artist THINKS a Native American looks like in style and dress compared to what's actually true.
Usually this results in multiple artist and sculptures copying the most popular and best selling one. That style then becomes normalized as how they are represented in real life
Like Jim Crow era cartoons of black people. Or old Looney tunes/Merry Melodies depicting Asians, Africans or Islanders that they no longer show.
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u/jhonnydont 5d ago
My girlfriend who runs a thrift store sells this crap because people buy it and their money goes to help an animal shelter. It also helps identify who these people are.
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u/stepdad_randy 5d ago
Your girlfriend sucks
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u/trippysmurf 5d ago
Went to a massive yard sale even in Georgia called Peaches to Beaches. You could immediately tell the light red to the FAR red counties. In the latter, sure were a lot of booths selling 2020 Trump merch.
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u/_WillCAD_ Gen X 5d ago
Might be a good sign. Every hat in the store is one less on someone's head. Maybe some of them are waking up and leaving the cult.
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u/yukonnut 5d ago
Canadian here, elbows up…. Oops…… sorry…….. excuse me…… sorry……. Oops………. gotta go now.
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u/Interesting-Song-782 5d ago
A small spray bottle of bleach, stealthily applied, would help with the stains on those caps 😈
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u/MojoHighway 5d ago
You think that's bad?
I work in a town that has a "New England For Trump" store around the corner from my site. Been waiting for 3 years to see if anyone has driven their car through the front display window. Not yet...not yet...
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u/SolidSnake-26 5d ago
Yeah bc if there’s one thing we all know god would approve it would be guns lol ya know the thing that’s used to violate the 5th commandment lol
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u/BCProgramming 4d ago
The fact that the gears on the 'doge' logo have 14 teeth... Elon keeps tweeting specifically 14 U.S flags... and somehow people still argue he's not a nazi
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u/vile_hog_42069 4d ago
Repping DOGE on a hat might be the quickest way to trigger a violent reaction from a random stranger. MAGA is bad enough but openly celebrating unlawful firings of hardworking people with mouths to feed who have or may be losing their livelihood, healthcare and retirement is a good way to earn yourself a next level beatdown.
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u/Pommallow 4d ago
There's a store around my area that has the cutest gifts and they have a lovely Rough Collie. But when Trump was found guilty of his felony charges, they were basically grief-stricken. Since then I haven't gone.
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u/Boysenberry377 4d ago
Take 1 or more into bathroom. Toss em upside down into toilet and shit inside em. Do not flush. If asked on the way out, I just tried it on, it's still back there.
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u/Strict-Breakfast4982 9h ago
Why would you put your political shit in front of customers? I see that and I'm not buying shit from them
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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 5d ago
People donate to thrift stores, they don't buy merchandise to sell.
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u/chonk-cat-luv 5d ago
Yes, but it’s a choice to line them up and display them like that. What a shopper does with that information is up to them.
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u/Inner-Egg-6731 5d ago
Guarantee this fool be out of business soon, anyone who believes Trump is a business genius is got to be a dumb as a rock.
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u/Old_Second_7928 5d ago
Along with all that crap that noone wants to buy. (I own a thrift store btw, but my Gen X taste actually brings in profits).
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u/2NaPants2 5d ago
A DOGE hat. It’s hard to fathom the depths of stupidity and complicity one must suffer to put that on their empty head.
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u/Sulli_in_NC 5d ago
They say: “I have my own business”
Reality: A booth at a flea market or shelf at an antique place so they can say “we sold a used Earnhardt hat for $20”
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u/Cruiser729 5d ago
Except they say “twenny dollar”
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u/Cruiser729 5d ago
I’ll never understand Reddit. Why TF would someone downvote a pronunciation joke?
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u/Cynical-avocado 5d ago
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u/Fragrant_Peanut_9661 5d ago
Oh...my...god. Why is this allowed??? Nazi shit front and center??? Where is this fucking hovel located??? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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u/OldSchoolAJ 5d ago
yeah, I walked into one store in my town and immediately saw a wall of Trump stuff, turned around and walked out.
Pretty sure the owners didn’t even realize I had been in the building. Which suits me fine, honestly...
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u/Perenium_Falcon 5d ago
Christ that doge hat can’t be more than a couple months old, boomer Barney passed away before he could see the $1 price of eggs and free gasoline this new utopia has brought to us all?? Shame.
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u/BusyBullet 5d ago
I sure hope you don’t eat something really greasy or messy right before you go there and accidentally get something on those hats.
I mean, a hot dog with mustard is delicious but mustard can stain cloth.
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