Tattered Flags...I just drove back to our new home from our old one.

[MineralMan]

Not long after I merged onto I-694 East, where the traffic was steady at 70 MPH (speed limit is 60), I was passed by a Ford F250 flatbed truck doing at least 80 MPH. Mounted on the rear of the truck was a huge US flag, flapping madly in the windy wake of that truck.

As it passed me, I noted that its trailing edge was badly tattered from being damaged by the wind as it flapped.

I suppose the man driving that truck thinks of himself as a patriot and is advertising his patriotism by trailing a tattered US flag behind him and his truck. That sort of patriotism is as tattered as the flag he drags behind him on the freeway. It is a shredded patriotism that comes from no thought or consideration. It is clearly faux patriotism, as promoted by Faux News.

Feh!

[Ocelot II]

1. My favorite flags on pickup trucks sighting was this:

A few years ago I'm driving along on MN state hwy 50, south of St. Paul and kind of out in the boonies, when I espy ahead of me a pickup truck flying a large US flag from one corner of the bed and a same-size Confederate flag from the other corner. It's too bad there's no way to communicate in words with other vehicles. Or maybe that's a good thing. Because I would have said something like, "WTF is wrong with you?" Dude fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down, I guess.

[MineralMan]

2. That is a favorite combination among that set of individuals.

Puzzling? Yes, but easily explained by ignorance or thoughtlessness. The contradiction never enters their stupid heads, apparently.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I've seen that combination a couple of times in my neck of the woods.

It makes you wonder if people see the contradiction.

[Bayard]

13. Same here in southern KY

But sometimes just the Confederate flag by itself. Also see it at peoples' homes, along with their trump flags.

[doc03]

3. Eventually they end in a ditch along the

road someplace. I see them every day they don't know that is disrespecting the flag. The ones I really can't stand are the old farts that have one on each front fendor or door like they are General Patton. Ducking idiots.

[Chainfire]

4. My Trump neighbor down the street

Still has his Trump-Pence signs out, and he has been flying a tattered, ragged, bleached-out flag for a year. I have thought about procuring it in the middle of the night and giving it a proper sendoff. In all fairness, and politics aside, the guy is raging, inflamed asshole on his best days; a perfect specimen of a modern Republican.

[MineralMan]

5. I'd just let him continue to demonstrate his ignorance, really.

[SoCalDavidS]

9. Pence?

Didn’t they hang that guy?

[Midnight Writer]

6. After 9-11, flagpoles sprouted at nearly every house around here, flying the Red, White and Blue.

Six months later, those proud flags were tattered and wind-torn.

My workplace flew a flag, and for years it was part of my job to take it down every night when we closed (folding it into a triangle) and to bring it in when rain or stormy wind threatened it. I notice the current management no longer bothers.

[Botany]

7. The Trump/America Flag Trucks remind me of this

[Ocelot II]

8. Trump voters, a/k/a Vanilla ISIS.

[Botany]

11. One in the same

[MineralMan]

12. Yes, sort of.

ISIS wannabees, though, I think. Based on January 6, I don't find them all that fearsome, in the end.

That could change, I suppose, but I think most of our flag wavers are mostly basement-dwelling faux warriors.

[Botany]

15. A percentage of them are dangerous and they think physically hurting and or killing someone is

.... justified because their brains are so cooked by Trump/Fox/OAN/internet nut ball crap, generational
stupidity, their own little society's racism/sexism/anti intellectualism, and don't forget their bible based
pastor's bullshit. Leaving out their crystal meth, vodka, and microwave waffle breakfasts.

[Ocelot II]

16. I used to think that. Maybe a lot of them are just sorry incel keyboard warriors, but

1/6 proved that there are also a fair number who are violent and dangerous. It doesn't take a lot of people to cause a lot of trouble, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Oaf Creepers and their ilk got up to some more hell-raising. The Y'all-Qaeda crowd shouldn't be ignored.

[albacore]

14. It's a cult...

Did you EVER see anything like this about Obama....or Clinton... or ANYbody?