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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's really sad that the treasonous Patriots have turned the
American flag into a symbol of white extremisim.
Thst really pisses me off.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)It's how they puff themselves up.
Bo Zarts
(25,403 posts)Perfect! That is EXACTLY what they do. I will be using that phrase .. thank you!
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,929 posts)They are thugs.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Elessar Zappa
(14,047 posts)Im not going to let the assholes co-opt it.
wnylib
(21,606 posts)They do not have exclusive ownership of it.
To paraphrase Guthrie, "This flag is your flag, this flag is my flag..."
Takket
(21,625 posts)FeelingBlue
(682 posts)We cannot compete when we do not show up. Since Dems are more committed to the Constitution than the Republicans, we should be more committed to showing the flag than anyone.
We should absolutely take back the flag. I have thought this for a long time. Fly your flags, Democrats. The Proud Boys do not own it- unless they do.
Omnipresent
(5,722 posts)chuckle:
gulliver
(13,193 posts)Thanks to the Trumpie white nationalist numbskulls, something is needed to give the flag flying a context that represents loyalty to the country.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)tRump flags are the symbol of white privilege and extremism, as are loser traitor confederate flags. tRump flags are not American, regardless of how many stars & stripes.
Claim back the US flag by flying it.
Claim it back like LGBTQ+ retook the word "queer".
Mister Ed
(5,943 posts)That's what I do at my house.
Traildogbob
(8,797 posts)Every time I see the flag on trucks or 5-6 on a house, my first reaction is it is the Trump cult. When I heard USA chants at Olympic trials or the US Womens soccer Friendlies, I cringed with flash backs to Capital insurrection. I served under that flag. Sad indeed.
calimary
(81,461 posts)Uneasy feeling whenever I see our flag flying at the back of some pickup truck. It becomes a symbol of the enemy. Those bastards have perverted it.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)They can't take that from you if you don't allow it.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)have absolutely no idea what the real flag means.
llashram
(6,265 posts)always been waiting on the day and a national leader like that last person posing as a POTUS. I just have to believe, we are stronger than their cult of dump...and will fight to keep it that way. They seem to forget, it was blue and grey.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I take it down if looks like rain. Dont fly it at night because it is not lit.
What make me chuckle is how the right wingers totally ignore flag protocol. Leave it up 24/7 in an unlit location. Never replace it until it falls apart.
Their treatment of the flag is like their patriotism; lazy and shoddy. Unthinking.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)I fought and bled for my country. I taught youngsters the greatness of the words we recite in the pledge of allegiance every day in my classroom...and now those seditious, racist bigots and bastards wave the flag in a sacrilegious act to shield their hateful and treasonous ignorance.
I'm so pissed...I can't even stand to look at the flag...and I want to flip off drivers that have it stapled on the trucks as a symbol of shame and disgrace.
Ziggysmom
(3,412 posts)One thing that stands out in his pics is that our country was United and fighting together against the evils. Today we are fighting each other and not making as much progress. The old saying United we stand, divided we fall rings true.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)anyone would call them "Patriots," and capitalize it no less. They're not patriots. They're traitors. And really stupid ones to boot.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)If you really want to piss them off, do the same and hoist a pride flag with it.
No surrender!
Patterson
(1,531 posts)dmr
(28,349 posts)No one will ever take it from me. I will die for it.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Any sense of pride I once had in seeing the Stars & Stripes is replaced by disgust, because my first thought is There goes another Trumper.
Treasonous morons have appropriated our flag.
I want it back.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)Everyone would just assume I am one of "them." I don't want that.