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riversedge

(81,541 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:10 AM Sep 2025

Should Flags have been flown at half-staff for Melissa Hortman, too?



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Should Flags have been flown at half-staff for Melissa Hortman, too?

Your thoughts?

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Should Flags have been flown at half-staff for Melissa Hortman, too? (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2025 OP
She was more of a politician than Charlie Kirk. bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 #1
I was trying to remember what he did regarding President Carter Rhiannon12866 Sep 2025 #2
MAGA hates liberal females. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #3
Of course flags should have flown at half mast for her EdmondDantes_ Sep 2025 #4
Weren't flags flown half mast yesterday for 9/11? tavernier Sep 2025 #5

bucolic_frolic

(55,818 posts)
1. She was more of a politician than Charlie Kirk.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:16 AM
Sep 2025

All this half-staff is getting out of hand. Important national political figures, fine. National tragedies, no question.

This is now half-staff flag flying for political advantage. Didn't he shorten the Carter period of half-staff flying?

Rhiannon12866

(258,824 posts)
2. I was trying to remember what he did regarding President Carter
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:27 AM
Sep 2025

Only this convicted felon could make the honor of flying American flags at half-staff into his personal vendetta.

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