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rgbecker

(4,875 posts)
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 06:57 PM Sep 2020

I'm 73 and my memory may be failing me, but....

I don't ever remember people flying huge flags with a presidential candidate's name on it. Besides the trucks and the boats in Texas, there are boats right here in liberal Massachusetts flying the damn Trump things.

But maybe this isn't new?

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I'm 73 and my memory may be failing me, but.... (Original Post) rgbecker Sep 2020 OP
And they fly the American flag at the same height. Walleye Sep 2020 #1
Etiquette - flag or otherwise SheltieLover Sep 2020 #5
True dat Walleye Sep 2020 #8
👍 SheltieLover Sep 2020 #10
Trump people desecrate the flag and trump makes money on the sale. pwb Sep 2020 #2
Vanilla ISIS didn't exist until Trump showed up Snake Plissken Sep 2020 #3
Vanilla ISIS is the new TEAliban. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #4
Neither do I. In It to Win It Sep 2020 #6
The Trump Party (formerly the Republican Party) has taken on a beligerent Blue_true Sep 2020 #7
Same here. It's new and it's ugly. nt crickets Sep 2020 #13
These huge flags are just more in-your-face RW crap. rgbecker Sep 2020 #9
It is new, AND IT's because they have nothing except those huge stupid flags to fly. a kennedy Sep 2020 #11
It's a cult. JI7 Sep 2020 #12
It's called Meowmee Sep 2020 #14
We haven't had a personality cult presidency before. Crunchy Frog Sep 2020 #15

Walleye

(34,930 posts)
1. And they fly the American flag at the same height.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 07:00 PM
Sep 2020

Flag etiquette says the American flag should always be higher than other flags I think

In It to Win It

(9,105 posts)
6. Neither do I.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 07:24 PM
Sep 2020

I thought about that when we first heard about the Portland shooting. I don’t recall anyone having huge flags of a candidate or even the President’s name.

Signs, bumper stickers, shirts, hats, buttons... sure

Huge flags? No. I don’t recall.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. The Trump Party (formerly the Republican Party) has taken on a beligerent
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 07:31 PM
Sep 2020

and dangerous tone. There are some republicans like Hogan of Maryland that Rick Snyder that still believe that they can salvage the Republican Party by supporting lower republican office seekers. The only former republican that appears to have any sense of reality is Stuart Stephens, who has abandoned the party for the Democratic Party.

rgbecker

(4,875 posts)
9. These huge flags are just more in-your-face RW crap.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 07:57 PM
Sep 2020

I'm truly frightened for our country. Big guns and huge flags.... what's next?

a kennedy

(31,874 posts)
11. It is new, AND IT's because they have nothing except those huge stupid flags to fly.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 08:04 PM
Sep 2020

No policy, no plan, no balls.

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