r/PublicFreakout • u/Jevus_himself Jevus Christ - Verified ✅️ • Dec 17 '25
🤷♀️ Karen Freakout 🧟♀️ Customer confronts Target employee for wearing a Charlie Kirk shirt
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u/slowlylosetodecay Dec 17 '25
The saddest part about this video is that she still has to work at her age
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u/PassionV0id Dec 17 '25
Meh Charlie Kirk wasn’t a fan of retirement.
Now, I will say that for future retirees, people under the age of 45, we should absolutely raise the retirement age. I'm going to say something very provocative. I'm not a fan of retirement. I don't think retirement is biblical. I think that if you retire, you should always be doing something not to say that you have to, you can't slow down, but you should be helping people, part-time work. You should be helping with the grandkids, volunteering. I do not like the over-emphasis on a retirement-based society. I don't. I think there is so much talent that is not being used.
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u/Jevus_himself Jevus Christ - Verified ✅️ Dec 17 '25
How dare you use an actual quote from Charlie Kirk to prove he was a piece of shit
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u/SilentSniper1252 Dec 17 '25
"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised." - Charlie Kirk 🥰
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u/influx3k Dec 17 '25
“I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” -Charlie Kirk
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u/ev6464 Dec 17 '25
Him and Ben Shapiro are peas in a pod with this take. Yeah, it's pretty easy to never want to retire when your job is effectively a pampered hate vacation, where you get to travel the world to the adulation of chuds and be paid millions of dollars.
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u/Oh_My_Monster Dec 17 '25
If you wanted to be generous you could argue that he's saying that staying active and involved in the community in some way is good for society and good for the individual. This is probably better than just sitting at home and watching Fox News until you die.
If he's arguing that people should work menial jobs for minimum wage up until we die... That's a whole different take. I would ask him for clarification but... you know...
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u/jessihateseverything Dec 17 '25
Wanted*. He's past tense now.
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u/DrHollander Dec 17 '25
He’s retired as fuck right about now
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u/Deesing82 Dec 17 '25
lazy shit
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u/Briak Dec 17 '25
Should've pulled himself up by his bootstraps and unperforated his carotid artery
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u/BitchesGetStitches Dec 17 '25
What a hypocrite! He retired WAY before 65 ...
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u/aft_punk Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
“I don’t think retirement is biblical”.
Of course it fucking isn’t. Because the average life expectancy was something like 35-40 years back then (granted, infant mortality rates were much higher). But most people who survived childhood either worked until they physically couldn’t or dropped dead from diseases or medical issues that are entirely treatable with modern medicine.
These are the times these stupid assholes yearn for, and do everything they can to hinder our progress and social advancement at every possible turn. Fucking morons.
That said, I guess Kirk would be happy he never lived to retirement age, because dying young is certainly very biblical.
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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Dec 17 '25
He's also a guy that never did a day of manual labor, worked a factory, construction, was in the military etc. There are people that are worn out by 60 years old. Knee replacement, spinal disc fusions, ankle/feet pain. I'm so sick of unemployed podcasters in air conditioned offices telling people who actually work for a living to work until they are in a hospice.
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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN Dec 17 '25
I've got bad neuropathy especially in my feet and I'm in my mid 30s. Wish me luck. I just don't think about it or it'll scare me more than about anything else.
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u/restlessmouse Dec 17 '25
Anyone trying to tell me what to do in retirement can kiss my ancient wrinkled ass.
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u/Rabid-Duck-King Dec 17 '25
I mean that shit doesn't sound so bad if we didn't live in a capitalist landscape
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u/PassionV0id Dec 17 '25
Helping with the grandkids and volunteering in your retirement is all well and good, power to anyone who wants that, but raising the retirement age would negate many peoples’ ability to do so lmao.
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u/Brammmy Dec 17 '25
Retired. Raised my kids, they should raise theirs. People don’t realize that retirement is sometimes the first time that people have been able to take care themselves and YES they deserve it.
My retirement is landscaping my yard and doing all those “I’ll get to it jobs” around my home that 50 hours a week never let me get to.
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u/Danny-Wah Dec 17 '25
They want you to work, birth your replacement, and die. That's what matters in a capitalist society.
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u/cap1112 Dec 17 '25
That’s real easy for someone who isn’t exhausted, sick, in pain, or potentially losing metal faculties to say.
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u/The_Mellow_Tiger Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
Dollars to donuts that she hadn't the foggiest fucking clue who Charlie Kirk was until he became an advertisement for Flex Seal.
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u/Charokol Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
I’ve met a little old lady in real life, who truly believed that Charlie Kirk was just a nice Christian family man who preached peace and love through Jesus. She didn’t believe this just because she conveniently chose to ignore the incredibly problematic parts of his personality, but because of the way the social media algorithm bubble works, she had literally only seen these sanitized bits of his speeches. And why would she have ever bothered to look up more? If you’re a little old lady and you see some guy saying some nice Christian stuff, you watch it and think, “that’s nice,“ and you move on.
Interacting with her was one of the things that made me realize how we all truly do live in different realities. Yeah, there’s a disturbingly significant amount of Trump supporters who are vile, hate-filled bigots, who see Trump is an excuse to let their vileness openly ooze out into the world, but also, there are people like this little old lady, who have been fed this carefully curated view of the world – and are naïve enough and un-curious enough to just accept it – who truly think Trump is a good man with Christian values who’s just trying to save this country.
Not that it’s an excuse, or that these people should just get a pass, but it’s something to keep in mind when your instinct is to treat all Trump supporters the same. When I talked to this little old lady, she didn’t come across as hateful or bigoted. And when I treated her as a person who might just be ignorant instead, showing her videos of the Charlie Kirk we all new, she was disturbed, and reevaluated her position.
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u/The_Mellow_Tiger Dec 17 '25
And had a friend who was a fellow gay guy who worshipped the ground he walked on, when I was indifferent of his death and explained my position, he spun off. "I was defiling him and his family." Nevermind the fact that Kirk despised him in general for what he was, like the rest of the party does, he stopped talking to me for awhile. Then he came back full attack mode asking for sources. So, exhaustively, one by one I provided sources with audio and video of the man himself. He laughed at me, accused me of cherrypicking. I explained I was given the burden of proof, and provided it. He said several insults and claimed I was insulting his intelligence. I calmly said "I'm not insulting your intelligence, I'm insulting the lack of it. Just because you voted for him doesn't put you in his little club. You're a gay man, and as such, a token to him, and you will be spent."
That was two months ago, he blocked me. No great loss.
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u/r3dditr0x Sam the Eagle is tripping 🦅 Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
The saddest part about this video is that she still has to work at her age
Also the fact that she doesn't realize Charlie Kirk was part of the reason she still has to work at her age.
(But, hey, at least she got to own the libs?)
Probably the only thing she owns.
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u/grilledcheese2332 Dec 17 '25
I mean Ben Shaprio said people shouldn't retire unless they physically cant work. Fuck the right wing grifters.
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u/ChadEmpoleon Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
Matt Walsh also said it was embarrassing and pathetic to call out sick for work. Proudly stated he has a near perfect record showing up for work even when sick.
You know, I’d also have a pretty easy time clocking in while sick if my passion for speaking absolute nonsense paid the bills.
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u/RedWarrior42 Dec 17 '25
Homeboy is the kind of person to show up to work sick and cough on people while wearing a 'Love Thy Neighbor' tee shirt
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u/pman13531 Dec 17 '25
Nah she owns that shirt too, and the fact that she was wearing it at work I guess.
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u/Jonathano1989 Dec 17 '25
Some people want to work because it gives them something to do. Maybe that’s why she’s working?
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u/GitEmSteveDave Dec 17 '25
There was a 90+ year old woman who worked for Walmart and all these people tried to white knight for her, and she literally said she does it to get her out of the house after her husband died and she saw people just staying inside dying. She works stocking in the baby department and gets to see kids all day long and all she has to do is fold clothes and talk to customers.
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u/Slammybutt Dec 17 '25
When I delivered bread to this little mom and pop grocery store, the butcher for the store was an 88 year old man.
I asked him why he hadn't retired (cause he shuffles around and is in obvious pain being on his feet all day). He just said, nah tried that got bored.
He was forced into retirement when he got injured on the job a few years later and died maybe a year after that.
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u/Downtown_Brother6308 Dec 17 '25
This.. was not a MAGA freakout
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u/MegamanDS Dec 17 '25
I opened the thread and immediately ctrl+f maga to see if anyone said this. The lady didn't even talk louder than a whisper while being berated by an unhinged liberal drone. How on earth did mods label this as a MAGA freakout?
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Dec 17 '25
I see shit almost every day that annoys me and not once have I thought the best course of action was to start filming and go confront the person. Guess I'm just not hip to the whole going viral on the internet trend.
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u/thekid1420 Racist Dweeb 🤓 Dec 17 '25
'A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.' -Jay-Z
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u/Alekesam1975 Dec 17 '25
"If you find you've stepped in shit, you don't keep stomping on it to punish it, you walk away." -- Alan Moore
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u/ohheyyliv Dec 17 '25
If I recorded all of the stupid I saw every single day I would have no memory on my phone for my own memories
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u/phatale Dec 17 '25
i don't support her ideologies at all, but she's on the clock at TARGET and can't harass you back unless she wants to be fired. if it pisses you off enough, talk to management or something, don't harass her while she's working literally the worst job in that place. the quest for internet clout is totally destroying some people's social awareness, i stg
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u/coleakahuckleberry Dec 17 '25
She handled herself with more dignity than the slug filming her, it's surprising it got uploaded considering how normal people would see it.
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u/jogafur3 Dec 17 '25
I hate what Charlie Kirk stood for. But the woman filming herself harassing this old lady, wow. What a piece of entitled shit.
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u/AnonymousSmartie Dec 17 '25
Look. I'm so fucking hard left it's absolutely insane. I'm "woker" than most every leftist I've met that it's painful I can't find my people. But please oh please can we touch grass and stop harassing mentally disabled demented old people who are literally just doing nothing. It's not like it's even a provocative shirt. Who really gives a fuck. Laugh and move on. Even report it if you care that much. But a confrontation does nothing.
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u/RegalBeagleKegels Dec 17 '25
Can you say all that again? I wasn't recording
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u/justsomedude1144 Dec 17 '25
Look. I'm so fucking hard left it's absolutely insane. I'm "woker" than most every leftist I've met that it's painful I can't find my people. But please oh please can we touch grass and stop harassing mentally disabled demented old people who are literally just doing nothing. It's not like it's even a provocative shirt. Who really gives a fuck. Laugh and move on. Even report it if you care that much. But a confrontation does nothing.
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u/MickeyMgl Dec 17 '25
Seriously, roll your eyes if you have to! And then move on.
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u/blacksourcream Dec 17 '25
A confrontation is even worse than nothing. It validates their force-fed manufactured opinion of the “demonic” left, and is exactly what folks on top want.
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u/Yupperdoodledoo Dec 17 '25
Amen comrade. The way she treated that old woman is shameful.
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u/beerdedmonk Dec 17 '25
Agree completely. The customer recording the video is incredibly annoying and rude. There was no reason to talk this way to her. I'm not a Charlie Kirk fan either, but this was wholly uncalled for IMHO.
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u/ontime1969 Dec 17 '25
Even if correct, calling them a "fucking idiot", at the start, is almost never a great way to get your point across.
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u/Nextyearstitlewinner Dec 17 '25
Yeah it’s really annoying when the woman who decided to wear a Charlie Kirk shirt to work seems like the more reasonable person in the video.
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u/jonnyl3 Dec 17 '25
People that record others' faces and put it on the internet should be required to show their own faces as well. If what they're doing is right and the other person deserves to be shamed, they'd have nothing to lose.
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u/heroofthewest1 Dec 17 '25
Agreed 100%. The shirt is crazy to be wearing at work and Target should be ashamed of themselves for not providing company shirts to their employees but, I would never in a million years bother that poor woman who looks way too old to be working there.
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u/Vixter4 Dec 17 '25
The cameralady seemed to be freaking out a lot more than the target employee. That employee was CHILLING.
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u/finqer Dec 17 '25
I mean.... the old woman handled that interaction extremely well...
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u/SlurmsMacKenzie- Dec 17 '25
Yeah, much as I don't really want to side with her given her views. The old lady IS entitled to think what she thinks, whether I agree or not. And she handled that situation politely and professionally, while all that can be said about the women filming is that she seems like a bully and attention seeker. Maybe the old ladies views are disagreeable, sure she's probably not wearing a work appropriate shirt.
But if it was that big of an issue, just go find the store manager and politely complain that you've seen an employee wearing a politically motivated shirt, that you don't think is appropriate for the workplace. Then let them deal with it.
Don't whip a phone out, and then start going at an old lady who's clearly just trying to do her job like a rabid dog, it just makes you look like the bad guy.
All I see here is a woman that's spent too much time sniffing her own farts and doomscrolling social media, that got triggered by a T-shirt and saw an opportunity to be a hero, and only made herself look like an ignorant asshole.
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u/TheGuyDoug Dec 17 '25
lol while I'm sure this was posted to mock the woman wearing the shirt, she is minding her business and managed the conversation calmly while this woman accosted her for not wearing a plain red shirt.
I hope the chick videoing does this to every retail employee at every store who happens to not be wearing the letter-of-the-law company uniform.
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u/ilovelindz Dec 17 '25
I don’t agree with the choice of shirt, but that’s more so the fault of target for not supplying uniforms for their staff. The bigger issue I have is the lady filming the employee, an elderly employee at that. Again, while I don’t support the shirt choice, harassing someone at their place of work for something like this seems pretty unacceptable.
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u/JJdoom Dec 17 '25
Publicly cussing out someone’s grandma does not make you a good person
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u/OutrageousTime4868 Dec 17 '25
Dude I don't agree with anything the right does, but publicly berating a brainwashed old lady when she never said a word to you in the first place is super shitty.
You got a problem with her shirt quietly tell her or a manager, don't fucking blast it to the world and think you're in the right for doing it.
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u/editorreilly Dec 17 '25
I'm glad I'm not alone thinking this. Thanks for saying it.
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u/DriftedTaco Dec 17 '25
Commented on another post of someone doing the same thing.
Everyone was cheering the guy on.
Thank fuck some normal ass people on this post.
If anyone thinks this an okay normal thing to do strangers minding there own business you need a psychiatrist.
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u/evening_snake-pi Dec 17 '25
JFC thank you. I’m having an “Are we the Baddies” moment reading all these comments supporting the camera lady. She sucks and this is not an acceptable way to behave.
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u/Guilty_Plankton_4626 Dec 17 '25
Yeah, I could not agree more. I despise the right, but fuck this, the old lady is literally just working and she was more than polite while being berated.
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u/EzekielYeager Dec 17 '25
Yea, I don't agree with MAGA or Charlie Kirk, but the way the camera person was handling it was unacceptable and I genuinely felt worse and worse for the old lady while watching this.
To be completely honest, I think that woman did an absolutely amazing job at handling and diffusing the situation that was sprung on her by a hostile patron. I don't support the old lady's views or allegiances but I do support the way she handled herself in this video.
All that needed to be done was to ask her about it, ask if she's aware of it being a highly controversial and polarizing shirt, and then go to customer service and report her to her manager.
In the moment she can't change her shirt. She can't go home and get a new one. She can't do anything about the situation but the manager can.
Appalling.
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u/EstablishmentAware60 Dec 17 '25
The woman who filmed this and is harassing this poor old woman is trash.
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u/solution_6 Dec 17 '25
Annnnnnnd now you just gave her thousands of dollars from a gofundme.
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u/bball4469 Dec 17 '25
The person taking this video is the piece of shit. Imagine confronting an old lady, at her job no less, about something as petty as a fucking red shirt. From what I saw, it says Charlie Kirk in the tiniest of print. And the Target employee was nothing but respectful as she's getting cussed out. I don't get mad for other people very often, but I am on this one.
What a complete punk.
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u/MetalRexxx Dec 17 '25
I have never filmed a stranger with my phone ever. Seems strange to me.
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u/asciiartvandalay Dec 17 '25
Seems strange to me.
Well, it should. They're a stranger.
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u/Stimey4477 Dec 17 '25
Fuck this chick. Who tf she thinks she is talking to someone like that? She did it to an older lady because she knows she’d get the shit slapped outta her
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u/Ok_Mango_6887 Dec 17 '25
I gotta say I can’t stand Kirk and I haven’t shopped in Target for almost a year now but this was way over the top. The woman employee was kinder than I’d have been.
The woman recording is shopping there (us lefties are supposed to be boycotting) and she is mad at someone on the right for wearing a T-shirt. That woman was quite polite to her and standing up for her own beliefs better than the woman recording…
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u/Fievels_good_trouble Dec 17 '25
But also, stop shopping at Target
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u/ejanely Dec 17 '25
Walmart HR instructs its new hires how to sign up for government assistance like food stamps. Amazon has drivers peeing in bottles in their delivery vans. There’s no such thing as a good corporation once they get too big to fail, so sometimes people have to choose the lesser evil.
If Target shuts down, Walmart and Amazon will have more power and their track record is horrendous. I support Costco and local when I can, but if I have to choose between Walmart and Target, I’ll choose Target every time.
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u/Funny-Employment4109 Dec 18 '25
Notice how there’s two types of people in this video?
One is a Charlie Kirk supporter working a job and has a calm polite demeanor.
The other is an unhinged liberal trying to publicly shame someone while videotaping, cursing, calling everything racist, and yelling for the manager.
What team are you on?
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u/DespicableDaddy Dec 17 '25
Not sure why people feel the need to go out of there way to record and argue for absolutely no reason. Don’t like the view? Move on
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u/Wookiescantfly Dec 17 '25
"Maga freakout" but the one losing their shit over a T-Shirt like an unhinged karen is the one filming.
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u/gordonfactor Dec 17 '25
It's possible to see something you disagree with, even if you despise it, and ignore it and go about your business. Plenty of fragile, snowflake, fake outrage on every side.
Target should have a dress code of only company logos and this person filming this video should be escorted out and banned from the store.
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u/Guygenius138 Dec 17 '25
Two things that never get old, Charlie Kirk jokes and Charlie Kirk
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u/GeekyDaddy13 Dec 17 '25
Aren’t folks supposed to be boycotting Target? Why are you going there and harassing employees?
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Dec 18 '25
I’m no fan of target or Charlie Kirk but I think the woman recording is a bitch. The worker is just trying to do her job, not be harassed by some lowlife.
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u/klingz2014 Dec 17 '25
Man the reddit echo chamber is as fuckin whacko bonkers as conservatives
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u/g28802 Dec 17 '25
I think it’s comedic irony that the majority of the left both hate nazis and the Jews.
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u/FestivusErectus Racist Dweeb 🤓 Dec 17 '25
Imagine if it was any left leaning political shirt. It would be 100% yay queen.
I don’t know man, calling someone who you know nothing about a piece of shit to their face for wearing a shirt is wild to me.
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u/middlebill Dec 17 '25
The only piece of shit in that video is the obnoxious woman filming and berating an employee attempting to do her job.
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u/apr35 Dec 17 '25
“Piece of shit”… last thing the recorder says. Pretty ironic. This is the issue with morale superiority.
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u/Eatmyshorts231214 Dec 18 '25
Good for that lady, for not engaging & giving this chick the reaction that she thought she was gona get
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u/Automatic_Picture_48 Dec 19 '25
Are Americans really that far up their ass with their politics that they ignore basic human decency?
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u/No_Championship4093 Dec 17 '25
Im not a fan of christo-fascists, to put it lightly, but the person recording is such an asshole. The poor lady is just working and gets berated by this recording B?!? Nah. Also, her reaction was so confused. It was just hard to watch.
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u/Spamontie Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
Honestly, kudos to the Target employee. Handled it like a professional.
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u/g28802 Dec 17 '25
I’m a conservative, it makes me happy seeing so many people on the left side of the isle saying “just leave the old lady alone.” This is the politics I grew up with. I don’t care who you vote for. If we’re in public we treat each other with kindness and respect. If we don’t agree on politics let’s find another topic we can meet common ground on. The country will be better if we can come together and find common ground than being constantly divided.
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u/MilledgevilleWil Dec 17 '25
Former Target worker here. The only requirement is the shirt is red. I’m sure there is a policy somewhere about political shirts specifically, but my guess is the management in that store wasn’t paying attention or didn’t care because they had 100 other fires to put out.
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u/Curse06 Dec 17 '25
Its hilarious how the person recording got doxxed. They know her name and place of work. She's a nurse at a hospital. Now people are harassing the hospital and clogging up their phone lines. To the point the hospital had to release a statement about it. Saying they are doing their own internal investigation (which basically means yeah her ass is getting fired for this). But to please stop calling their main line and instead call a alternative number. Because its "negatively impacting" patients and clinical staff reach.
Meanwhile someone made a gofundme for the target employee that's already raised like 50k+ in less than a day. The duality. The target employee was funny cause she was basically the chill guy meme.
By the lady recording being an asshole she basically diverted her life and rewarded the target lady.
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u/baeb66 Dec 17 '25
Target doesn't even supply their workers with red shirts? No wonder that company is circling the bowl.