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question everything

(47,476 posts)
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 11:30 AM Apr 2021

What will happen to the flag?

My next door neighbour is selling his house. I wrote about him how he was considering Arizona but decided on Lake of the Ozarks instead. Too many Democrats in Arizona, he said. Served in the Navy and evaded jail for growing weeds because of PTSD. Both of us had yard signs last fall. Mine won, his lost.

Anyhoo, he got a great price from Zillow and he and his spouse and friends did all the packing. Then came a crew that cleaned the house and the yard and tossed a lot of junk.

But.. he left the Stars and Stripes by the front entrance.

So I am curious: if the new owners choose to express their patriotism in their own way, how would they handle the flag? Donate it to a local VFW, I suppose.



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What will happen to the flag? (Original Post) question everything Apr 2021 OP
Are Biden supporters not allowed to fly the Stars and Stripes? left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 #1
Only if they choose to. I hope. question everything Apr 2021 #2
This is the thing. HUAJIAO Apr 2021 #4
Certainly! :) NOT leave it to be dishonored by people more comfortable Hortensis Apr 2021 #5
I assume that I ( a JRB supporter) can fly my flag. JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2021 #7
As long as they don't replace it with a flag depicting Trump with a machine gun, you should be fine. Beastly Boy Apr 2021 #3
If they don't wish to use it, they can burn it or bury it. Mariana Apr 2021 #6

HUAJIAO

(2,385 posts)
4. This is the thing.
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:03 PM
Apr 2021

WE should (a bad word, I know) all fly the stars and stripes and reclaim it from the fascists...

When Biden won I got one, a small one, albeit as I live in a group of townhouses and had to fly it from my window sill. And My sis and BIL got a HUGE, really HUGH, one and fly it from their home in Long Beach, CA. PLUS they drove around LGB with my sis(white)driving and my BIL (black) in the back seat waving another big one !!

Hit 'em where it hurts.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Certainly! :) NOT leave it to be dishonored by people more comfortable
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:08 PM
Apr 2021

with authoritarian government than the responsibilities of democracy. Authoritarian? The Republican Party's headed archconservative fascist. This couldn't have happened if more of us stood up for and protected for the blessings we were born into.

I think we should all claim the flag as the symbol of the world's first liberal democracy that it has been from the very beginning. Before it comes to stand for a fascist state.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,339 posts)
7. I assume that I ( a JRB supporter) can fly my flag.
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:20 PM
Apr 2021

It looked better last fall, when there was a Biden/Harris lawn sign under the flag.

But it flies until Flag Day, when it's burned and replaced with a new, untattered flag.

Mariana

(14,856 posts)
6. If they don't wish to use it, they can burn it or bury it.
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:15 PM
Apr 2021

Either is acceptable disposition.

If it's in really good shape, or if they're squeamish about disposing of it themselves, they can give it to the VFW. The VFW will probably give it to a member who wants it, or they will dispose of it properly.

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