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FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:28 AM Feb 2021

Seen on a drive through south-central MO

In the last few weeks, when driving through NW MO, Kansas, and NE MO, a lot of tRump signs are gone.

But I've noticed a few new ones. And on what would usually be a pleasant drive on country roads, there is still the ugly sight of numerous tRump flags.

Yesterday, on Hwy 17, I passed a farm which had two 12 X15 Trump//Pence signs. One was attached to the fence on each side of the entrance gate. Not that uncommon, but what I noticed was that they had taken the time to use a can of spray paint to completely black out "pence". On both signs. If it hadn't been snowing so heavily, I would have turned around and gotten a pic.

Something has got to be done about the media that is programming these people like cult members.

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snowybirdie

(5,223 posts)
1. My Dad
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:34 AM
Feb 2021

retired to SE Missouri. He changed from a normal guy who voted independently, into a rabid right winger. He loved listening to a young guy on the radio there named Rush Limbaugh. A guy who went on to bigger and better things. I know what you mean.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
4. That must have been after Rush's "Bachelor Jeff Christie" days...
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:38 AM
Feb 2021

...when he was just a shitty DJ, getting arrested for soliciting men in a public park.

UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
2. Yesterday, during the trial
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:38 AM
Feb 2021

I was wondering how the republicans were reacting to hearing that Pence was doing his constitutional duty in an admirable way ...

It is becoming clear they don’t want to think about that.

Freedomofspeech

(4,223 posts)
3. Same in SW, PA
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:38 AM
Feb 2021

Now the are putting signs in their yards mocking Joe Biden. I hate these disgusting trumphumpers.

hlthe2b

(102,225 posts)
5. Last time I drove from Colorado that way to Northwestern Missouri, I eschewed the interstate
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:39 AM
Feb 2021

and drove state highways through all the small towns. The grotesque anti-abortion billboards (I'd expected a few) were overwhelming. I suppose some have been swapped out for pro-Trump signs, but that is sure no improvement.

It saddened me because the rural people of that area had always struck me as "salt of the earth" and kindly, sincere people. But, it clearly doesn't take much to bring them into the cult, under the guise of "religion" and grievance, it appears.

lynintenn

(644 posts)
7. On I-55 thru lower MO there are anti-abortion signs every few miles.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:55 AM
Feb 2021

You see why Josh Hawley is so popular here. Thank goodness for St. Louis and Kansas CIty.

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