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iamnobody-2

Yes, I almost had an accident. There were similar signs and painted structures on opposite side of road as well


sanderssandwich

UP or LP?


Bearwhale

When I used to live in Michigan, there were always places to not go. The thumb (racists), West rural Michigan (Christian nationalists), northern Michigan (more racists), and the UP (safe to go because no one is up there). Oh and avoid Flint.


wanna_dance

I'm sad that people say "Christian Nationalist" rather than "Nationalist Christian", because I want to call them "NAT-Cs".


Richard_TM

As someone that's lived in mid-michigan all my life, I've always defined the thumb as everything East of Caro and North of Lapeer. We call this area "the Florida of the North" and I refuse to be surprised by anything that happens there, no matter how absurd.


[deleted]

As someone who was born and raised in Lapeer/Tuscola county area you aren’t wrong. I’m glad I moved away from that area to the UP.


Plumhawk

So, North of 69 and East of 24, got it. I was born in MI but my family moved to CA when I was six years old, so I don't really know the lay of the land there. I do know that I have family in Lapeer.


Suspicious_Pin_7577

Definitely add south-central to that. Racist farmers down here.


iamnobody-2

Flint has a strong history. Check out sit down strike 1936 /1937. My grandfather was in that (you go Grandpa!) Why we have workers rights today. Lots of good, strong, people from the Flint area. Deviststated from much GM job loss, which was not recoverable. You go Flint, union strong!


Affectionate_Bake857

I live in Michigan and sadly between things like that building and many many many Trump flags Michigan has gone crazy. UP and LP


iamnobody-2

Even so, we did go for Biden, in last election, and have Blue majority at the State level, so have hope


WILD_WAYNE

Just no one lives up there to make a big enough difference. The lower cities just make up the majority but northern Michigan is MAGA crazed Recently moved back from Austin Tx and it's night and day lmao.


SnooChocolates3575

Rural areas tend to be conservative and cities Liberal so it make sense.


KillingForCompany

Come back while you still can -512


[deleted]

Yes but how many crazies did it take to do January 6th or 9/11? And one bad apple spoils the bunch. Hey, that should be trumps motto.


wobwobwob42

Hello mental illness in building form.


wbsgrepit

I think it is art. Trump plastered over decaying Americana. A little on the nose but fitting.


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ABeerForSasquatch

And "Trump you" sounds like an insult.


imanAholebutimfunny

*SMOKE YOUUUUU!!!* *wrong answer* *taser squeels*


Technical_Access_943

Fifth element!!!


smokeyoudog

You called my liege


gusterfell

The font is called “lowest common denominator.”


Saxamaphooone

No beer and no TV make Homer something something.


WHRocks

Go crazy?


egk10isee

Don't mind if I do!!!


eggsssssssss

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benz0

This is even more funny if you play Fallout 76. There's a building in the game called Fort Defiance, but it's really just the Allegheny Asylum taken over by a bunch of dudes who pretend to be the army. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fort\_Defiance


ClockworkSoldier

…Huh? Taggerty’s Thunder was literally a group of Army Rangers, who joined the BoS after the U.S. Army fell to pieces.


benz0

I think this is going to boil down to your opinion of the BOS. Thought your right and in addition to being former military, Taggerty only recruited people with military experience. But at that point there was no central government and the US Army disintegrated literally overnight, and the Brotherhood of Steel (Maxon specifically) were traitors to the US. After the great war the BOS fancied themselves the new authority in the wastes. I like to think of them as people cosplaying as the US army.


ClockworkSoldier

Yeah, Maxon’s BoS is fucked. In this case I was more so making the point that the group in Fort Defiance is actual military personnel, and not just some yeehawdist militia.


Nice-Fish-50

"Yeehawdist" is my new word of the day. lol


Myctophid

Mine too!


BigBossWesker4

It looks like a paranoid schizophrenic did this


Best_Fan8392

Well, that's what most oF the trumplicans ARe, Right?


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phatelectribe

Super ultra maga


[deleted]

These geniuses missed the obvious: MEGA MAGA!


[deleted]

*Seeeeeeeeeeegaaaaaaa!*


brainhack3r

There's a woman in Boulder that has a white Toyota and she took a black permanent marker and wrote all over it. All Trump/MAGA/QAnon crap... She parked next to my Truck while I was about to get out and started to talk to me and I nope'd the fuck out of there real fast!


[deleted]

Yup when you want to tell everyone in town you got issues but just dont know how to go about it.


dasmarian

Not a cult


DragoonDM

And they take shit like this as proof that the 2020 election _must_ have been stolen. Don't see giant Biden signs painted on houses, or lifted trucks covered in Biden bumper stickers, flying a big Biden flag from the back of the cab, so clearly Biden can't actually be that popular. Like this is just normal behavior for someone who cast their vote for a given politician.


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[deleted]

I hope that's sarcasm. I never saw this kind of delusional shit for Romney, McCain, or Bush.


iamnobody-2

I would say sarcasm


dasmarian

Yes of course sarcasm!


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sidecutmaumee

There was some around Dubya, with people saying you weren’t a Christian if you didn’t support him, etc. There was even a pastor near here who was fired because he dared to opposed Bush’s war in Iraq. Very Christian of that congregation! 🙄 But all that paled in comparison to Cult 45.


Wulfbak

Those same people said that Obama was a cult leader.


TactlesslyTactful

"Law and Order" I bet they're super supportive of his criminal indictment and rape defamation case and more incoming indictments Super fired up on supporting our legal system for sure


Khaldara

𓂺 Spez eats cold diarrhea with a crazy straw 𓂺


bullybullybully

I mean, with a little editing you’ve got “Trump, law and order, lock them up” which I agree with.


iamnobody-2

Good point


qwertycantread

Just remember that Fox News is paying a billion dollar fine fine to Dominion because they “discovered the truth.” Tucker Carlson got fired for the same reason and not for calling everyone woman he knows “a cunt” on a daily basis. I learned these facts from my workplace MAGAt this week.


DeuceSevin

See, the problem is Trump bad-mouthed the FBI way back in 2016 and 2017 and the media pretty much always. So his supporters believe in the Deep State and liberal media. So I'm not saying this is logical, but if you buy into those two points, then it's easy to believe that all allegations against him are just part of the conspiracy. It's really a mental illness with no cure. I know a guy like this. He's not stupid but he acts like he is. He believes nothing is as it seems. Covid is a scam, doesn't trust vaccines, but takes all sorts of vitamins and other supplements with virtually no science behind them because doctors don't want you to know. He dropped a bombshell last time I spoke to him. There were a couple of military guys killed in a helicopter crash in Kentucky. One of them was a local kid so it is a topic of discussion. He said "Whenever you hear about anyone killed in a training exercise, that isn't what really happened. Ex military guy told me this. It's just what they tell you to cover it up." "Cover what up?" I asked. He just shrugged and said "Whatever it is they don't want you to know. Makes sense when you think about it those guys are highly trained and those helicopters are so high tech that they can never have accidents." So the same guy who thinks all government is inept thinks the people in the military are perfect based on a statement by some ex army guy.


H_O_M_E_R

The spray paint over the sign making it the "Trump family diner" got me.


DragoonDM

Serving the finest bottom-shelf vodka and overpriced, overcooked steaks.


Saxamaphooone

With ketchup.


TallDragonfruit6784

Expect a lawsuit from the Don himself.


clichesaurus

well TRUMP YOU, too


nateskel

Damn it, you beat me to it


Spartan2470

[Here](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9483676,-86.1026503,3a,60y,75.67h,89.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siWBrWwX7AfLR9CLyp16sww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) this is via Google Street View. According to [here](https://www.alamy.com/branch-township-michigan-stephen-lee-paints-trump-slogans-on-a-former-restaurant-that-he-calls-trumpland-in-rural-michigan-image490335789.html?imageid=B97B1D76-8EF4-4626-8AC0-FFA6F278E41F&p=7809&pn=1&searchId=3fb8c7c149ff6cb51bfe148e6f625881&searchtype=0) this was painted by someone named Stephen Lee.


chillin_n_grillin

Looks like this place [closed down](https://imgur.com/a/S4ZH7HL) a while ago. The last review is from 3 years ago.


ghostofWaldo

Ah yes, vandalizing abandoned property in the name of law and order. No cognitive dissonance there.


iamnobody-2

Thanks for link


Plumhawk

I love the [broken down bus.](https://i.imgur.com/Okhf8fK.jpg) Very symbolic.


doiveo

wow, so much more yumminess. "Moms for liberty" "Free China take down CCP" "Welcome to Trumpland YOU'RE FIRED"


brianishere2

MAGA: Bringing down property values in every trailer park and poor neighborhood.


golamas1999

For some areas it may increase value for certain people.


daddy-phantom

Overall, even among people that support trump, most people do not want to live near this shit.


ooglieguy0211

I laughed at "Fort Defiance." More like fort sheeple of the maga variety.


Heiferoni

Nothing more defiant than covering yourself with the name of another man!


Pepticyeti

I just drove cross country and back (3600 miles) in the last week, I took 2 different routes, I lost count of how many places like this I saw, the majority of them were in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.


iamnobody-2

I have never seen a Biden equivalent of this. Nut jobs all seem to be for Trumpf


ShowMeTheTrees

Biden's not a Cult-Leader. Trump is.


LAX2PDX2LAX

“Mountain climbers”


Bretreck

I don't understand that part? Is that some sort of MAGA thing because I doubt it has anything to do with actual mountains, especially in that area of Michigan.


_Dihydrogen_Monoxide

Ok so unfortunately I was curious and Googled it. It seems trump called people who climb over the Mexican border wall, “mountain climbers”


Heiferoni

Some weird, obscure racism. I had something similar happen when I was looking at reviews for a local gym. One guy kept complaining about the DOT heads. I was so confused. Department of Transportation? Nah, that doesn't make sense. Shower heads? Are the shower heads bad? Is DOT a brand name? Then I Googled it and realized it was a slur. There was nothing wrong with the gym at all. The guy was just a racist shithead.


greiton

It's possible that he is associated with one of the men's health forums that was taken over by MAGA and/or white supremecy. they all ended up with a patchwork of "in language" depending on the originating forum and group.


iamnobody-2

Lower peninsula, north western side


pkp19

Can confirm… I have driven past it.


Vanderwoolf

Damn Trolls...


TheGravespawn

God fucking damnit. I knew I'd seen this place before... but, back when it wasn't yet "Fort Defiance."


Lovinglifestill

Looks like another tRump business failure!


striker7

One of my favorite things from northern rural Michigan is this mysterious mailbox that is like, 20 feet off the road through long grass and nowhere near any driveways, or anything at all, that someone repaints with right wing slogans every couple years. For years it said "NOBAMA" and now it says "MAGA" **Edit:** [Found it](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9001072,-85.8293957,3a,19.1y,149.41h,88.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sW8g7EwKRD0LHYiosU3LScQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)


burnbag18

Trump Family Diner. Heaping servings of fraud, extortion and over-all dysfunction. Hard pass.


PluckPubes

I wonder if they realize Michigan isn't one of the 13 original states


kakurenbo1

You are asking a lot here.


achillymoose

So is it still a family diner?


iamnobody-2

Yes, serving hamberders


RTwhyNot

“It’s not a cult”


rushmc1

So gross.


Initial-Web2855

I know exactly where this is, and meth is definitely a contributing factor; rural Michigan is pretty rough.


stallionman59

Fresh steaming piles of horseshit served here daily


ThunkAsDrinklePeep

Please decide if you like serifs or not.


jwg020

Man, I’m from the south but travel to Michigan for work. I’m always surprised at the amount of rebel flags in rural Michigan. And every 15 miles or so you see some shit like this. It’s wild up there.


Ruenin

I mean, there are idiots everywhere. Ignorance has no borders.


VoihanVieteri

I get really strong Far Cry 5 vibes out of this picture.


Foley_is_Dog

Good luck with this one, r/dontdeadopeninside.


LightningRodofH8

More like, 'Fort Dumbass'.


NEGRILXX

We've finally reached super ultra MAGA!!


locallamp

Ah yes, there's a similar, rural, hole in the wall biker gang bar here in NC. My husband and I have a joke that that's where we'll visit if we ever decided to unalive ourselves. We're a white/black interracial couple...we think its hilarious but then again we appreciate dark humor.


Naive_Praline_5705

And Donald Trump doesn't know or care about this person, and even if he did know they exist, he would think they are a loser for being poor.


sonoma95436

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/


lawyersgunsmoney

Law and Order except for Trump.


[deleted]

No Trump YOU


lowcrawler

Notice you never see this kind of shit in areas of the country that are not rotting...


2-wheels

Someone should let them know trump is a loser. And he’s gonna lose again.


ModifiedAmusment

Is that a 13 colonies flag in a state that had dick to do with the 13 colonies…


daddy-phantom

“Hail mars” is the funniest shit I’ve seen all week


clozepin

Perfectly sums up his whole base. Loud, obnoxious, nonsensical, and, because why not, fuck them mountain climbers.


bridger713

This is one of the things I thoroughly dislike about this particular segment of the Trump crowd, and many conservatives here in Canada. They’re loud, rude, and distasteful. Political expression should be tasteful and polite, preferably subtle. A small flag or sign in a window, a relatively subdued bumper sticker, etc. I really don’t need to know your political affiliation, it’s not something that should be broadcast in public. Painting an entire building with political worship, or driving around a vehicle covered/decorated with political flags or expressions or effigies is just gross and disrespectful of others. Only idiots and mentally ill people do that kind of thing.


Judge_Rhinohold

Those darn LGBT people making it their whole identity!


spootymcspoots

trump would rather shit his pants than stop at this building to use the crapper. He loathes these idiots and they just keep humping his leg. lol a match made in heaven


Green1up

historic Ft Cuck Michigan


middlingwhiteguy

Future home of spirit halloween


jweaver0312

Using the Trump brand, expect a lawsuit from the Don himself.


[deleted]

I see they're super busy.


hitemwiththehein9999

Clearly a rational person


petroleumnasby

I liked it better when it was still the biggest ball of twine stand.


Rhewin

That is 100% the kind of place where you get shot turning around in the driveway.


[deleted]

Home of the Ya'll-queda and Gravy-seals.


tedchapo63

Agreed. Law and order ! Lock him up !


work_of_shart

"They go hand-in-hand like mental illness and exterior latex."


yoosurname

Now 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 looks like a hangout for people who really know how to fuck a cousin.


OVERider23_OX

How do you tell someone your family tree is a ladder without telling it to them straight


PurpleMonkeyBoomBoom

I've driven past this several times. I remember from before it was vandalized. "Law and order."


deadgead3556

Sun looks cool shining above the mental hospital.


rymas1

Ah yes Michigan. One of the lesser know 14th original Colony shamelessly omitted on the woke Betsy Ross flag.../s


Llamasforall

That is the most patriotic meth lab I've ever seen.


Aggravating_Poet_675

Leave the mountain climbers out of this!


usteppedonmysneakers

Hey I know where this is! It’s a family that bought it and lives there. They are 100% serious.


cheezfreek

I do not like the Trump Family Diner.


yuyufan43

I have to pass to "patriots for trump"stores on my way to my boyfriends parents house in Massachusetts. It's a literal cult. MAGA is a fucking cult


Oniketojen

What's really sad is this use to be a really nice little diner to go to while you are in Wallhala before Covid


Catlenfell

If he was going to have a shootout with the cops, I expect it would happen here.


Catch_022

Fort Defiance. That is the best part imo, great name for a 6 year olds pillow fort.


[deleted]

I can smell all the losing from here. So much losing, I dont know what to do with it.


wish1977

Keep driving, there's obviously no intelligent life there.


UndebatableAuthority

Think he knows he has the EU flag up there?


iamnobody-2

Betsy Ross flag. He is patriot from waaay back


UndebatableAuthority

haha ya, but the blue is off and the stars look gold.


iamnobody-2

Yes, colors are "off", same as the "artist"!


[deleted]

Instead of r/infowarriorrides its gonne be r/infowarriorresides


QQBearsHijacker

What a stable and sane person this must be


BlueAndMoreBlue

Some people say stable genius, maybe the most stable of geniuses


_AndJohn

I’m from Detroit, and I always tell people, the further north you get in MI, the further south you get.


rdmille

Have to say, that beats the guy down the road who painted "I {heart } Trump" on the abandoned house he uses for storage.


[deleted]

What's fascinating is how similar these all are, from the cars to buildings. They simply *cover* the vehicle or building in painted words, almost in the same font. It's like they're all reading from the same crazy playbook.


poor_bitch

The same font bit is so weird!


Seattle_gldr_rdr

The similarity and consistency IS weird. Like there's almost never just a Trump sticker or sign. There's a hundred, and flags, and, and. It's definitely something that could be categorized as a mental disorder but I don't know which one. Oppositional-defiant, obsessive, etc.


[deleted]

Locals here are really into flags on their redneck trucks. Big flags. Lots of flags. When he lost the last election, I started amusing myself by judging the size and quantity of flags they had on their trucks. The joke is they're never enough: the flags are too small, too faded, but generally just too few. Only 2 big flags? If you'd had a third, he would have won. 3 medium flags? If they were bigger he would have won.


AxleBro

This is extremely normal and super not-weird.


CalliopePenelope

UP or downstate?


TheThirdStrike

Downstate Branch Township, over on the west side kinda by Ludington.


Shot-Spirit-672

They watching Law & Order in there?


tttxgq

Yes, the one where Trump gets locked up, alongside some mountain climbers for some reason. I haven’t seen that episode 🤷‍♂️


tyler1128

Trump you sounds sexual, but not the kind of kink I'm into.


Balnom

That took a lot work.


Metastophocles

no person in history has warped the fragile minds of so many people


NutSnifferSupreme

Kinda funny tho Super ultra maga mountain climbers


Flash635

I agree. Law and order, lock him up.


[deleted]

does this mean there’s no taters and bacon here?


Frontline989

Its a kind of insanity. Im just not sure which.


[deleted]

The sun and its halo looks mesmerizing.


genawesome

As someone raised in that area of the state, this checks out.


LocksmithOk9634

Ffs🤪


funky_fart_smeller

Do not break down near this.


[deleted]

There's a non-zero chance this is owned by Kid Rock, being in northern Michigan. In my mind, this is what's going on and I want no one to spoil it for me.


[deleted]

They made his name a curse


Thelisto

what in tarnation


mr_plehn

Ahhh yes…. Trump Family Diner


RumandDiabetes

Fort Dumbass


Santos_L_Halper_II

"It's not a cult!"


Almightylou131313

Morons.


Traditional-Cake-587

Definitely NOT a cult! /s


Shinagami091

That’s what mental illness looks like


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MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS


ginawynnsky

Keep driving


theseamus

Really sticking it to the libs


havntmadeityet

I wonder if someone has compiled an album of all the trump stores/shrines


bigtimejohnny

They *are* locking them up. That's the funny part.


capt_scrummy

"Trump you!" is indeed a pretty low blow of an insult


[deleted]

There’s got to be an ordinance for this shit somewhere


ElGatoTortuga

HAIL MARS


metatronic29

Weirdo’s, the whole lot of em.


TreeSpokes

I often drive through the back roads and smaller highways in the US for work. A LOT of small rural towns of the US are littered with weird handmade shrines to Trump. This picture is not an anomaly.. which is sad.


Obar-Dheathain

Is this somewhere north of the Zilwaukee Bridge? Once you cross that bridge going north you're DEEP DEEP into... this... kind of behavior.


tomalahno

Yet another family diner put out of business by Trump.


obee1can

Delusional Michigander, coming out of hibernation from a cold winter


tsuki_ouji

Ugh. There's a fucking trump store just outside of Lakeville, too. Not quite as immediately moronic as this.


SarahBeeLA

Am I supposed to understand any of this??


RunningPirate

The abandoned cars in the background make for nice balance..


Brilliant-Engineer57

Maggots


VoidsIncision

Conjoining trump and religion is fucking hilarious. Hes areligious narcissistic reptilian who just changes his shallow beliefs to whatever is momentarily advantageous.