My trip across Kansas

[Trust_Reality]

Over the weekend I traveled across KS and through parts of rural MO.

In MO I saw no lingering Trump signs. In small rural KS towns, I saw no Trump signs. In mid KS, I saw the permanent Trump sign. It is a shipping container parked in the corner of a field on a slab of concrete just the right size for the container. In very large letters: TRUMP, and smaller, 2024.

In extreme Eastern Colorado near the KS border there is also a shipping container in the corner of a field. It is professionally painted including Trump's face and "Thank You for Trying to Save America."

In Ottawa, KS on Saturday there was a group of 10 - 15 people, all women I think, making a lot of noise at a key intersection. (We went around the block to pass by again and give them supportive toots and thumbs up.) At an IHOP in Oakley, KS we sat near an oldish couple. The man was missing one or two front teeth, was friendly, and mentioned that he does not like Lawrence (Lawrence, Kansas, home of the university).

THIS IS NEW: In mid KS in a field near the highway is a small billboard size sign, colorfully painted, and with the wording:

Real Kansas
Real Voters
Real Fed Up

[dutch777]

1. I was in TN & noticed pretty much the same. Except there was a big Trump merch store by the freeway into Nashville

but I bet sales are meager. Buyers remorse? I think so.

[Attilatheblond]

2. Thank you for your report from the Heartland. Good to know the winds are shifting a bit

[Aristus]

7. What they do in public is nothing.

What they do at the ballot box is everything.

[Tetrachloride]

3. Cool sign at the end.

[usonian]

4. How much for a billboard or two or three?

[MuseRider]

5. It has been quiet in some areas

I have to drive through. I am in Lawrence often and of course that is rarely **never** over run by R signs. Where I live it is small town rural, outside of Topeka. Nothing much for signs yet except my new, from California, neighbor where we see every day a Trump flag and a Don't Tread on Me flag but that is it. KC seemed pretty covered for liberals but again, we travel those areas mostly.

We have not been out much but I would have thought there would have been much more republican support by now. You never really know here until it is done but I will always expect the R's will run over us. We work hard to change that and we have had some real gains over the years but they are very hard to hold on to.

You really covered some ground there! This is nice to see because it is always so darned hard to know around here, thanks.

[Shrek]

6. There's an IHOP in Oakley now?

Used to be the only place you could get pancakes was the truck stop on I-70.

[viva la]

8. Did you see the Flint Hills? They are so eerie.

I was driving through rural Illinois recently, and there are far few Trump signs than I saw last year. Of course, the farmers there are really losing business.

[The Madcap]

10. The Flint Hills are wonderful.

Both in spring when green and winter when brown.

[Emile]

9. I noticed one of our local magats took down all

his Trump flags draped across his front porch railing.

[KS Toronado]

11. The shipping container you mentioned.....

That the one a few miles west of Hays north side of I-70? It used to say 2020.