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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn an Oval Office press conference, President Trump claimed flag burning is going on all over the country.
I've done a google search of news and can only find one incident. Please fact check me.
Lovie777
(23,750 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,842 posts)So if you're not seeing them ................
Jerry2144
(3,319 posts)Or some combination of all three? That idiot certainly has a poorly functioning brain, regardless. Maybe his rectum empties into his cranium, then flows out the mouth?
Deuxcents
(27,715 posts)Cosmocat
(15,473 posts)And, we have to live in the actual reality that that their delusions greatly impact.
newdeal2
(5,620 posts)Dangerous stuff. I guarantee he is being fed AI junk to form these opinions.
Arazi
(8,887 posts)Guessing there is a lot of flag burning going on tbh
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)never bothering to look up from their well-paid republicon cappuccinos and to check the bullshit meter
Torchlight
(7,066 posts)Another nothing-burger served to them by their rapey-waiter. Lots of 'anecdotes' about burning flags will be asserted this week. One or two of them might even be loosely based on true events.
Diamond_Dog
(41,068 posts)Its worked so well all this time, why should he stop?
Scrivener7
(60,079 posts)These things can easily be fact checked, but our press doesn't EVER bother.
mopinko
(73,959 posts)he will b met w staunch resistance if he sends troops here.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,265 posts)Norbert
(7,854 posts)UTUSN
(77,795 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(4,253 posts)Many scout troops accept worn US flags and burn them in a prescribed ceremony.
Midnight Writer
(25,754 posts)It was very popular at the time and riled up the willies of a lot of folks.
Of course, as soon as he took office it was never mentioned again.
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)― Arundhati Roy
yourout
(8,875 posts)spanone
(142,064 posts)It's rotting just like our freedoms.
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