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4mo ago

Yeah no he's not planning anything shady

Combat knife... What the actual fuck.

Seen in this clip

https://xcancel.com/KamalaHQ/status/1846373568013029457

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that's not even mallninjashit--more like backwoods redneck flea market discount bin shit
- Gas station quality
  
  I've seen gas stations with a wider selection of knives than an actual knife store, that's no insult.
- His followers can't afford mallninjashit.

I tried to mess with the customer support, but they stayed way too nice, so I felt bad and stopped. .__.
- Just a good business who found a good business
- When the grifter has a better customer support than most retail websites...
- The day after Trump loses:
  PatriotAddictDeals.com closes shop
  PatriotAddictBargains.net opens for business
  PatriotAddictBargains sales rep: "Sorry, sir, we are a completely different company in a very real and legally-binding sense, and cannot honor a refund for your Trump NFT Ninja Sword. We can, however, offer you a limited-time 10% off coupon for this handsome Trump Ninja Sword display case."

Made in China with the latest in Tin technology

You know it's a real combat knife because it has a bottle opener built in. I'm maybe even kidding.
- Isn't that a belt cutter? (hook knife)
  You can also see the glass breaker, it's very common for these knifes to have a belt cutter and a glass breaker
  
  Dual purpose. Actually I tried to look up what they list it as and all I came away with is the perfect discovery of it's pricepoint:
  "20% off"
  
  Exactly what it looks like, yeah.
  Which, as far as I've ever heard it, would make it a "folding utility knife". I've also never seen a combat knife without a fixed blade, because... "Hold on let me just unfold my pocket knife so I can combat you!"
  Any folding knife, again, as far as I've ever seen, would be more likely to be called a tactical knife. Which is just another word for utility folder IMO.

If anyone would be able to tell the difference between a "combat" knife and a fucking "pocket knife", you would think it would be the y'all quaeda brigade of Trump supporters. But the fact that they'll buy this shit up in droves despite knowing damn well it's not what it's advertised as just points to how brainwashed these cultists are.
- A Pocket knife is one of these: https://www.victorinox.com/de-CH/Produkte/Schweizer-Taschenmesser/Mittlere-Taschenmesser/Swiss-Champ/p/1.6795
  I will not accept or tolerate linguistic differences as an excuse, you're being assimilated. Aswissilated if you want so. This is now a pocket knife, everything else not. I have spoken in my full authority as a owner of one of these.
  Hope you have a lovely day, fellow pocket-knife owners.
  
  That, good sir, is a Swiss Army Knife.
  This is a pocket knife.
  This is a combat knife.
  and this is a hunting knife.
  
  Crikey I feel like over 100 bucks US for a swiss army knife is a bit steep

I am not going to that URL, but I'm predicting that even at "20%" off that knife is a bad deal.
Resident knife dweeb here. You all know me; my credentials are in my post history. I am a veritable connoisseur of crap exactly like this.
These twerps can cry "patriot" as much as they want, but this is a piece of shit OEM knife from China. The factory will do you any printing you want on the handle for a trivial upcharge. For instance, this looks an awful lot like the Top Quest T27019 (page 5, catalog here) or myriad other similar knockoff junk. The unit cost on this type of thing is about $2 each in bulk, for instance like this. Give me half an hour and I can probably figure out who the actual supplier is.
Some rat bastard is laughing all the way to the bank with these.
- In case you were wondering, they are charging $69, while saying you're saving "$100+"
  They're also saying it's a limited-stock item with only 150 ever made. Sure, buddy.
  They're also selling a pack of crappy trump-themed memorabilia, a plane model, a blanket that's supposedly "Trump" themed but has no trump branding, and a crappy electric lighter I've seen thousands of on Aliexpress.
  
  If I had had the money in 2016, I would gladly be that rat bastard. It was obvious then that magtards would buy anything with dipshit's name on it, and you could easily slap a banner on your website that "10% of your purchase will be donated to conservative* causes." With a disclaimer that stipulates that conservative in this case is conservation or that it's net proceeds after costs, and include salaries and political donations in costs. Political donations in this case actually referring to planned parenthood or blue campaigns in battleground states.
  Suck money out of idiots and put it to good use.
  
  They’re also saying it’s a limited-stock item with only 150 ever made. Sure, buddy.
  Sell 150 each of 100 very slightly different designs, claim they're all limited edition.
  (Or, this being Trump, just outright lie and call it political interference when someone points it out)

MRW I enter political memes to dunk on trump and find all the knife people in here making good points.

- It's a Chinese knife in American livery it's got levels and they're mostly dumb or crazy and or dumb and crazy.

That looks like a knife that came with the cheap walmart-brand survival kit that I bought to keep in my car.
It is horrible. Worst knife I have ever bought.
But it does have the seatbelt cutter and the glass breaker just like the one here. I think you can get it for a few bucks separately from the kit.
- Have you actually tried the seatbelt cutter..how sure are you that it works better than your terrible knife?
  
  I haven’t tried the seatbelt cutter on the knife, and i don’t even keep that knife near me.
  I’m willing to bet that the seatbelt cutter can’t be as bad as the blade is, and that piece of shit can’t hold a sharpened edge. Though that bar is on the floor. But if it is somehow worse, i wouldn’t be too surprised.

Is... Is this real? I can no longer tell from this side of the pond
- Yes. America has well and truly become a parody of itself.
  
  Wow, that's... well I don't even know how to respond
- I don't even know anymore and I'm over here.

This just reminds me of Rwanda where right before the big one, they started distributing machetes which then were used to chop the opposition to death...
But of course trump wouldn't do that... Without trying to scam his own voters first, at least.

Ha ha the poor intern that had to come up with as many descriptions as possible that weren't "It's a cheap Chinese knife with Trump printed on it. Must've taken the lad ages -
Bold Design: Features a sleek, patriotic design with Trump insignia.
Durable Blade: High-quality construction for both display and practical use.
Collector's Item: Perfect for any Trump supporter or patriotic memorabilia collection.
Symbol of Patriotism: Show your loyalty to Trump and American values.
Versatile Use: Ideal for display, daily tasks, or as a unique gift.
Limited Edition: A must-have for die-hard Trump fans—grab yours while they last!
Perfect Gift: Great for gifting to fellow patriots or adding to your own collection
- Honestly if I had that job I'd just use Aislop
  
  I would just train an AI on trump's speeches.
  "A great knife, one of the best knives in the world. It can kill sharks and batteries. Other knives are baby knives... Oooh watch me, I'm a baby knife, I can only cut diapers, mommy come see how sharp I am. Our knife can also cut diapers by the way, very effectively, I do it all the time."

It's probably cheap soft steel made in China. You're probably fine.

Is a foldable combat knife a good idea? I'd think you'd want the blade to be fixed
- Yes, one would normally prefer a fixed blade.
  However, depending on local laws, that may not be possible to carry.
  That reminds me, I'm moving soon, I need to check out some various laws for the new place.

I’d say that this is America being beyond parody of itself seeing a presidential candidate’s speeches going full qvc, but we did once have a pyramid scheme selling racism that did wildly well

Is that a "combat knife"? Cause it looks like the box cutter I use at work
- I sincerely hope you are not using something like that as a box cutter, because it absolutely isn’t one.
  
  I don't think it even qualifies as a knife. It's probably made of some sort of cheap stainless steel that goes dull if you sneeze at it.

Little bit of Insider Baseball on knives. Anytime a knife doesn't list the blade steel, I assume we're looking at 7Cr17MOV, 440C, or D2 with a bad heat treat. That price point is quite a bit higher than these cheap Chinese steels. Just another "True Patriot" grift. Pocket knives are cool tools and there are a slew of American brands that won't break by cutting into cardboard. These Trump Combat Knives will last a couple months maybe.

Wild that everyone is focusing on the absurdity of selling knives, as opposed to the url being PatriotAddictDeals.com
- Wait, fuck how are they so beyond parody‽ Fucking losers
- That's what I was going to point out. Beside that sounding like the most obvious scam domain ever, reading it at face value would indicate that the Republicans think their supporters are a bunch of addicts. Did they fire everyone with any marketing background or are they all so far down the rabbit hole that this sounds perfectly reasonable to them?
- Lol. They call a zippo a snowflake lighter compared to this electric one.

Fwiw, I don't think the knife is directly affiliated with Trump; I think they just bought the ad space. I could be wrong though.
Also, that's not a combat knife. Thats a cheap no-name pocket knife.
Aaaaaand this pales in comparison to all the firearms you can find with Trump's face engraved on them.
- I mean I'm voting against Trump but the temptation to grift his followers is present in the back of my mind!
  
  I won't lose any sleep over it. Thinking about spraypainting trump on some old pallet wood and selling them on etsy as 'patriot planks' for $150 a piece.
  
  Go ahead. Keep some of the cash, donate some to a liberal cause. Don’t feel bad, they’re willing to tank an entire nation for their grift.
  
  Likewise.
- And it would just fall apart when opened while someone tries using it during a riot.

"Patriot addict" = "Bad with money."

The handle should be made of bone with knobby spurs on it large enough to make it uncomfortable to use.

That same Patriot Addict company also has a Trump bobblehead which is 100x more horrifying than I expected. Tremendously horrifying. The most horrifying thing in the history of our country.
https://www.patriotaddict.com/pages/trump-bobblehead

Trump be hiring every sixth grader that pirated Photoshop cs3. Everything he releases just has this design aesthetic that no one tried because it's awful.
- Right? I was about to lose my mind because no one commentend that. This looks worse than the overlay of tele-shopping channels

Trump and his family of billionaires are also launching a cryptocurrency as final bid to grift as much as possible before he, hopefully, loses and they all become irrelevant forever
- hopefully, loses and they all become irrelevant forever
  That's what I was hoping in 2020. It seems the slow steady progress of time will have to take care of it.

Inb4 Patriot Glocks or AR14s….I wouldn’t be surprised if someone else already has tapped that market though.
- https://www.auto-ordnance.com/commander
  
  Sad to see a company that once manufactured arms to fight fascism turn to manufacturing them for the glorification of fascists.
  Also a small nerdy aside, their ‘about’ page still mentions Blish’s delayed blowback breech locking system which, while technically effective when done properly, has since been proven to not have functioned as Blish thought at the time. It’s actually considered an unsafe delay system as modification, damage, or material change of the gun can cause the delay to disappear resulting in the explosion inside the barrel finding its way out of the wrong end of the barrel possibly injuring/killing the operator.

While this is odd given the current political landscape in America, pretty sure I remember Bush having knives and stuff too. Would see them at the local carry out when I was young.

Ahh right, I assumed 100% voting rates. You've definitely changed there context here. Really great job at focusing in on it.

Just a money grab. You really are trying to make it into something it's not.
- nope. i've personally met people who think they're ready for combat and then showed me one of these 10$ gas station bullshit "knives"
  trump followers are exactly that type of person
  
  That's why it's a really good cash grab. They're selling $5 knives with the word trump printed on them for $70 dollars after a 50% discount. They say the knives are rare (only 150 ever made or some bs). their 5 iq brains will be all over this shit
  
  Even a bullshit knife can cut you.
  
  The generalizing of 200M people y'all do is crazy to me. Carrying a knife is very common in rural areas.
  But yeah they white labeled a cheap combat knife they thought idiots would think is cool so we're going to start seeing news stories about neo Nazis starting a spree of stabbings with trump combat knives 🙄
  There is a pretty clear pattern not just here but on Reddit as well (but much moreso here) of allowing jokes and memes about guillotining people and other violence and nobody cares; but then to turn around and lose their shit over this.
- I mean, OP didn't choose to market it as a combat knife.
  
  https://lemmy.world/comment/12917224
  I'm sure we're going to see a jump in stabbings with trump knives any day now.
- A money grab for sure but not just... His base is openly getting ready to reclaim the election they already "know" will be stolen. Golden Sneakers and "my" bible are cash grabs ok; combat knife...
  
  I mean. It isn't even a combat knife. It's just a pocket knife.
- Dude I'm not sure where trump hosts the streams of his rallies but whereever it is it has some of the weirdest, sketchiest ads right next to his face

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