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goobster  ·  1520 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Showerthought: Being a Republican today is punk as fuck

Right?!? And that exactly what the Trumpistani's think they are doing! They are "giving it to Man", and "owning the Libs" and stopping these rogue government agencies like the Fed and the FBI, and their being all anti-authority... while kow-towing to the exact authoritarianism they claim to be against!

Drain the swamp! (and install newer, more terrible creatures than the swamp ever had before)

When punk scene became performative (you weren't "punk" unless you wore the right clothes, or had the right hair, or like the right bands) it gave room for the rise of The Descendents, Black Flag, and the punk scene that wasn't the safetypin punks, but the geeks, and the skaters, and the whole west coast so cal punk scene...

The Trumpistanis see themselves as punks; the anti-authoritarians who are overthrowing the established (aka corrupt) power structures, and installing their friends and drinking buddies, and getting all their convicted felon friends from the 80's and 90's presidential pardons... they think they are righting wrongs and speaking truth to power... and that's punk as fuck.