It would be fun to make a "mar-a-lago-meter" AI where you pass a photo, and it tells you its maralago score

🤡

Like Barbie, including all the warmth and personality of a plastic doll.

This is a good thing, keep going. One day they will diverge into a new species. Homo inhumanus.

What's a gorg?

looking like ghost

Plastic surgeons and consultants describe Mar-a-Lago face as a deliberately conspicuous and homogenized aesthetic, with one estimate placing the 2025 cost of a full set of procedures at around $90,000 plus ongoing maintenance

That’s a lot of money to fuck up your face when the sidewalk is literally right there

The thing they don't get is that hate is what makes a face ugly, and no surgery can ever fix that.

Man, I do love when Wikipedia is Just Stating Facts™ and yet reads like the sassiest gossip, because reality is just so dumb[^1].

Ivanka Trump [Trump's daughter with his first wife] has been described as the inspiration of Mar-a-Lago face.

Kristi Noem, Melania Trump [Trump's third wife], and Kimberly Guilfoyle have been described as having Mar-a-Lago face.

He does like to talk about wanting sex with Ivanka, so I guess, that tracks.

Melissa Rein Lively, a MAGA political worker, was reported [...] to reject "any idea of submission or constraint" associated with Mar-a-Lago face, and that "no one forces me to do two hours of sport a day, to go to the hairdresser every three and a half weeks, to get my nails and eyebrows done, to get Botox."

Blink twice, if you're being forced to say this...? Seriously, why would you list a bunch of unpleasant aspects, if you're trying to make the point that you don't mind it?

[^1]: By the way, we do have a great word for this in German: Realsatire – when reality is so ridiculous that merely recounting it sounds like satire.

Trumpface. shivers

Gross 🤢 .

This really is a They Live situation.

And I'm all out of bubblegum.

A face to face the facade that is their (fake) news.

I see Homer Simpsons makeup shotgun is making a comeback.

Another response was to suggest that this was more of an issue of younger women criticizing the makeup styles of middle-aged women than politics.

Not all the criticism came from the right. Colette Carbonara, a Columbia undergraduate writing in the Columbia Political Review, feared that it might alienate some voters who might otherwise support Democratic policies and candidates while lacking "real substance". Many of the critiques on TikTok, she noted, admitted that the style was more common and less political in 2016. "By engaging in this caricature, liberals reinforce the stereotype of themselves as urbane cultural elites who relish the opportunity to mock people from the South or rural areas whose makeup is, perhaps, slightly dated compared to the newest trends in wealthy, progressive cities."

Essentially, this.

To the extent that the makeup trend is a political strategy at all, I expect it will be a fairly successful one, as it (1) supports traditional gender roles by highlighting the fact that women use makeup. (2) Appeals to older americans who are more likely to vote because "she looks like me" or "she looks like my wife". (3) Appeals to poorer (trashier) Americans who are more likely to over-apply makeup.

Conformity is everything, and I bet they still say shitty things about each other under their breath.

They're ok with MAGA having gender affirming surgery.

Too much makeup = fake AF. Perfectly fits the MAGA mold.

Aposematism is the advertising by an animal, whether terrestrial or marine, to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating. These advertising signals may take the form of conspicuous coloration, sounds, odours,[2] or other perceivable characteristics.

Wikipedia source

TIL

Still not as weird as Erika Kirk's tight leather pants or the way she hugged Vance.