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captain queeg

(10,176 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:53 PM Jul 2020

My neighbor has an american flag today

I went and did a little shopping this morning and saw a small group on a freeway overpass waving American flags. It’s too bad that I immediately think they are probably MAGAts. Not many years ago I’d have just thought of them as people displaying their patriotism, likely veterans or had a family member in the service. The cowardly draft dodging traitor is trying to appropriate all patriotic symbols and make them about himself. What a loathsome piece of shit he is.

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Pathwalker

(6,598 posts)
3. We fly ours for the four generations of war service from our family
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:02 PM
Jul 2020

members. I have never voted for a Republican in my life and I never will - I am a life-long Democrat. That flag belongs to everyone, not just them!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
4. I put mine up today as a reminder that *they* don't own it.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:07 PM
Jul 2020

Trump and his MAGAts can't appropriate the flag and other symbols unless we let them. I've also had a Black Lives Matter sign in my yard for awhile, should anyone be inclined to make inaccurate assumptions about why my flag is up.

marlakay

(11,451 posts)
5. I remember it started with Bush or was it the tea party?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:11 PM
Jul 2020

I took my flag down until Obama was president then haven’t since Trump.

But I use to put up for both parties.

stopwastingmymoney

(2,041 posts)
11. It was Bush
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:21 PM
Jul 2020

After 911 beating the drums for war that ruined it for me

I don’t display any flag but maybe a California bear flag would be nice

Stinky The Clown

(67,792 posts)
12. Our 5x8 flag, spotlit, flies always, day and night, rain or shine 24/7/365
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 05:20 PM
Jul 2020

Right below it, also lit, is a sign like this. I welded up a more permanent frame to make it more durable.

captain queeg

(10,176 posts)
13. I like it. Do you get Trumpers throwing shit on your lawn or anything?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 05:34 PM
Jul 2020

Just saw a heading where trump was warning about far left fascism whatever the hell that is supposed to be. In the beginning I figured lots of right wingers just supported him because he claimed to be a rethug. Now you are just announcing yourself to be an ignorant fool to the world if you support him.

Stinky The Clown

(67,792 posts)
15. Nope. The only trouble we ever had with a flag was when a neighbor asked us to turn ours . . . .
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 08:53 PM
Jul 2020

. . . . right side up so her asshole, stolen valor, snowflake trumphumper boyfriend would not feel offended.

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