But the most jarring aesthetic in this burgeoning MAGA stagecraft is the unbridled embrace of face-altering procedures: plastic surgery, veneers, and injectables like Botox and fillers. (As one Daily Mail headline declared, “Plastic surgery was [the] star of [the] show” at the Republican National Convention in 2024.) The overall look has since been disparagingly referred to as “Mar-a-Lago face.”

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    plastic surgery, veneers, and injectables like Botox and fillers

    That sounds an awful lot like gender-affirming care. Guess they aren’t real women/men.

    /s (except for the fact that I don’t think they’re even really human anymore, but that has nothing to do with the care they received and everything to do with the shit they spew)

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    Getting all that work done and transforming your face into an immobile cartoon guppy mask is yet another way of erasing individuality. Zero self-esteem.

    Also, fuck the Daily Heil.

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    We need to start having boxing matches or fights for their political debates so everyone can see how cowardly and insecure they really are. He may be old, but I bet you Bernie Sanders could take 70% of Republican politicians in a fight. Maybe watch Al Green hit someone in the face with his “pimp cane.” And AOC would fuck some shit up.

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      I feel like AOC would not hesitate to bite someone in a fight, I’m talking about like a full on ripping sinew and flesh out type bite. The type of biting that’d get a blood thirsty berserker to nod in respect. Ya get what I mean?

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      This is nuts.

      We can’t choose our leaders based on how effective they are in hand to hand combat!

      Stick with the current system: the one where we choose our leaders based on how much money they can raise.

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      We need to start having boxing matches or fights for their political debates so everyone can see how cowardly and insecure they really are

      Reminds me of when Saddam Hussein challenged Bush Jr to a duel. Yes this actually happened.

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        Saddam was a hit man before he came to power. Shrub was a cheerleader at Yale. Though I admit I’m still impressed at his shoe-dodging game, so maybe the odds would have been more even than I’m assuming.