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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUh Oh. Local Garden center made a big mistake erecting a big Trump sign
No pics unfortunately.
Yesterday evening, local nursery, garden and landscape center -- the biggest one in the region -- decided to erect a 10 foot by 25 foot Trump 2020 sign in one of their corner fields across the street from one of the most well used township parks. Today the cheese has hit the fan.
I just drove by their offices and retail plant center and there must be 100 people out front with Biden, anti Trump and the business name with the "not" symbol, picket signs walking back and forth along the street - more or less blocking their entrance. The police aren't stopping them. Out of curiousity I went over by the park and sure enough, another bunch of folks pacing the sidewalk on that corner. Everyone in the area knows that field belongs to the nursery.
Beautiful day ... just the right weather to go buy the fall plants and get them in the ground. I wonder how many will pass and go elsewhere.
Serves them right.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)and climate change alone is bad enough, but we will NOT KNOW what hit us when putin and traitors MM and DT get the green light to totally decimate the country and take EVERY PENNY
SS and Medicare GONE
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,194 posts).
Even if it's pretend, it will mess with their minds.
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,856 posts)reported they'd put up a huge Biden sign, local businesses should know better than to do any such thing.
BComplex
(8,051 posts)They have an extra dose of arrogance and self-righteous entitlement where their smarts aught to be.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)He had 2 big Trump flags and got too close to the beach at lake in the region showing off his Trumpism. He got sucked up into the beach. My nephew was kind enough to pull him out with his boat instead of the guy having to pay the DNR to fish him out.
BComplex
(8,051 posts)I would have let him sit there, stuck, looking like a fool.
I've quit being nice about those folks. They need to be seen for what they are.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)Unfortunately, its a conservative area (Schertz, Texas....near San Antonio)
BComplex
(8,051 posts)It was blue way before the Bush family decided to screw it up.
minidriver
(57 posts)and I have a drumphie right across the street. At least my neighbor (who has never put up any kind of sign in their yard for the 22 years we have lived here) is proudly sporting a Biden/Harris sign as well.
minidriver
(57 posts)I noticed the drumpf signs popped up along 3009 a day or two after the Biden/Harris signs showed up.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)oldsoftie
(12,536 posts)Even the most hardcore trumpers i know dont have signs in their yard.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)and shouting out suggestions to him about how he could get unstuck. "Have you checked to see if you're out of gas? Maybe your wife can get out and push. I heard that if you all stand on one side of the boat and jump up and down......."
BComplex
(8,051 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)They have to sit and wait 10 seconds or so for the flow of people to decide to stop to let them in or out.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)demosincebirth
(12,537 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)No, but I have refused to cross them! Stopped and made sure I supported hotel workers in LV. Some looked at me like, what?
I have a Union sticker in the window of my Buick and still voluntarily pay Union dues? Why not? They helped make my life easy and my late husband walked in those picket lines to get health care!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)signs.
Bad for business.
Locals know which farmers, lawyers and other business types have run for office or support their committees and just don't care as long as they don't get obnoxious about it.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)Since it wasn't by their actual store, they figured it would just be another sign in a field. Glad that people were obviously right on top of it.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)niyad
(113,302 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,205 posts)she said that there were several things , one, stay on sidewalk. do not block driveways . do not interfere with other peoples comings and going. otherise ok. sounds like the demonstrators are doing the right thing. and one more thing, keep moving.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)because unions know how bad the consequences can be for their members. There is a ugly history of labor suppression in this country.
George II
(67,782 posts)Years ago when Linda McMahon ran for Senator against Chris Murphy, some nutbag in town put up five or six huge (5X12) McMahon signs near a bend in a main east/west state road in town.
They were close to the right-of-way and large, so I called the DOT. Within hours they came and removed them - on state property and blocking drivers' view.
They never went back up further from the road, so I assume the clown didn't bother going to pick them up.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)Moved to be closer to family.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Southwestern Ohio!
niyad
(113,302 posts)a very large drumpf sign in one window. This is a blue area of a red/purple county. Sign came down after about a week.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)To be so political. I went to an appliance parts store a few years ago, and when I saw the vile anti Hillary crap on his wall, I told him I wouldn't buy anything from him and walked out. For good.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)Loge23
(3,922 posts)They're all over the place down here in FL.
Along a section of US 1, the signs, similar to your description, pop up every couple of miles.
I heard from a DEM activist that the signs have been brought by a wealthy donor - they're all the same: white background with the two names of the criminals in red and blue. It's a large plywood sign anchored by 4x4 posts.
Some have already been defaced. More to follow.
StarryNite
(9,444 posts)makes my heart sing!
XanaDUer2
(10,667 posts)Alienating potential customers
jb5150
(1,178 posts)that in many cases, it's the a-hole owners of the business that put up those signs, the actual employees have no say in the matter.
dchill
(38,489 posts)...that everyone secretly agrees with them.
onetexan
(13,041 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)good sign if so!
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)You risk alienating almost half the people on a good day! Tone deaf owners.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)What purpose do those sign serve exactly?
Is there one person in the US, hell, in the world who doesn't know who's running?
But once one goes up, then we're off to the races because any candidate wants to be seen as being supported by the majority of people. Peer pressure to vote a certain way and be "winners" like the rest of us I suppose.
Now local candidates for office legitimately need them for name recognition.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)I wonder if truck belongs to owner or employee.
Truck is shrine to trump with flags and stickers
Upthevibe
(8,048 posts)Thank you for this post. I hope that A LOT of people find another place to buy their garden supplies..
Botany
(70,504 posts)Betya this one sold burning bush, pear trees, privet, purple leaf winter creeper, along
with other non native invasive plants too. I will not mention them by name we also have
some really good mail order nurseries too.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)Now is the time to make your voice heard. Boycott, whatever, just show the public there are dozens of Biden supporters who refuse to shop at a business that is looking to attract Trump supporters.
I avoid them like the plague, which is as much literal as virtual.
nuxvomica
(12,424 posts)For Democrats, though. Nice place that specializes in bonsai. It was set up so you could just drive through and pick up signs. They were all out of Biden-Harris signs when I got there which may be a good "sign" in this red district.
PatSeg
(47,430 posts)When will these people learn? Keep you politics and/or religion out of your business. It is really bad business, as you undoubtedly are going to offend someone. Who can afford to lose customers during these difficult times? Guess this owner will learn the hard way, like so many others before him.
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)If I had a store or anyting along those lines, I wouldn't put anything political on it, as I wouldnt want to lose business. I certainly wouldn't refrain from doing so on my car or at my house or online, but at a friggnig BUSINESS, it's quite dumb.
Cha
(297,220 posts)I hope who all was responsible for that stupid trumpence sign gets the message.
A lot of people don't agree with a Murderous Treasonous asshole as "president" & not everyone watches fox propaganda.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)dsharp88
(487 posts)It could be real, of course, but we really shouldn't so quickly recommend this or any such open-ended post like this. There's no link, no pics, no attribution, no sourcing, no verification...
I'm not trying to throw water on the OP, but this could just be propaganda from someone unfriendly who will re-post later how dishonest we are for sharing this. This is a time to be extra-cautious.
niyad
(113,302 posts)You are very close to violating a DU rule about insulting other posters. I think an apology to KentuckyWoman is in order.
dsharp88
(487 posts)I was just being cautious. I don't trust the other side, but I'm glad to learn the OP is reputable. I apologize for not knowing that before.
niyad
(113,302 posts)you had no foundation for assuming she was lying.
"I meant no offense", and yet, you posted something offensive.
dsharp88
(487 posts)Are you telling me we can't ask questions? Discussion is the foundation of a free and open democracy, is it not? Look again I was respectfully questioning. I didn't assume. I said nothing offensive. When you pointed out the reputation of the OP, I was grateful to learn of her plausibility, and apologized for not knowing first. I look forward to your pointing out any errors I have made because I am willing to accept my falibility. Are you willing to accept that perhaps your initial inference of my comment was less than correct, too? So let's move forward working together because we have a lot of convincing of others far less intelligent than us we need to bring important truths to, namely the awful President we need to defeat in November. Fair enough? Good, and thanks because it's good to know that our side has concern for others. It's another great difference between us and them.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)posters with low post count, joining right at presidential election time and tends to go dormant in between. Seems fishy as all hell to me...
But what do I know?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I would want to stay in business and alienating some of my customers would not be part of the success of my business. Yeah, it would suck having some people who are idiots as customers but they would be customers.
There are businesses who lost me as a customer because they were stupid enough to advertise the shitholes they support.
catbyte
(34,386 posts)Lots for Elissa Slotkin, none for Paul Junge; many for Gary Peters, one for John James. Quite a few homemade signs saying, "Thank you, Governor Whitmer!" I love living in Lansing.
seen no trump signs. Only Biden Harris. I am in a suburb of KCMO.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)I lived in Leawood for 30 years and kept quiet about politics until my next door neighbor put up an Obama sign.
Rebl2
(13,506 posts)I dont get out much these days due to the virus, but so far no trump signs, only Biden Harris.
SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)This was in Columbia, SC. It was reported on the news that dozens of people were coming in and ordering special cuts of expensive meats, and then when they got to the counter they would look out the window and point at the sign and say, "Oh, never mind, I changed my mind." The owner refused to talk on camera, but they said they were now requiring people to pay in advance.
The chat room on the local TV station had dozens of people saying, "let's patronize this brave, Christian store," but two days later the sign was gone and............about two months later the store was closed.
BTW, the sign was the Old Testament verse about putting to death 'a man who lays with another man," so I felt that justified the guerilla shopping attacks.
Captaindad
(40 posts)You're an American?
https://m.
niyad
(113,302 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)It'd only make repubs angry. The hopeless morons wouldn't ck the facts.
efhmc
(14,725 posts)Thanks and welcome.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)SunSeeker
(51,554 posts)Really stupid business move too.
samplegirl
(11,477 posts)He did it in 2016 with two huge bucket trucks backed into his greasy spoon dinner!
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louzke9
(296 posts)That sign is going to be a lot more costly than the initial fee they paid!
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)As you say, they deserve what they get.