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surfered

(13,497 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 12:55 PM Jan 26

The people flying this flag


Now support a government that can shoot gun owners with a permit to carry, enter your home without a warrant, and arrest and send you to a foreign prison without due process.

Sounds like a tyrannical government they said they opposed..
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The people flying this flag (Original Post) surfered Jan 26 OP
Ha! They fooled you! It's only tyranny if minorities have rights! unblock Jan 26 #1
Still can't believe we managed to get a female VP elected. C Moon Jan 27 #32
Ruby Ridge? Aug 1992 - republican administration Norrrm Jan 26 #2
And yet odins folly Jan 26 #17
That's because they believe MurrayDelph Jan 26 #3
No one on that side of this divide seems terribly concerned about Pretti's 2nd Amendent rights BobTheSubgenius Jan 26 #4
The people flying that flag are as trustworthy as a trump. Don't take them at their words. erronis Jan 26 #5
Well it is a snake with a forked tongue,right? BattleRow Jan 26 #20
I call thesr people turds BonnieJW Jan 27 #35
The NRA has disappeared. BradBo Jan 26 #6
They fly the flag and hoard their guns because they are terrified; not "patriots" as they see themselves. chowder66 Jan 26 #7
These MAGAts are a confused, ignorant lot. Martin68 Jan 26 #8
They may be ignorant, but not confused Wednesdays Jan 26 #9
Judging people by their jersey, colors, or uniform is simple. Totally misunderstanding the meaning of the Gadsden flag Martin68 Jan 26 #31
Among a slew of things they used to claim to support. Things like, the country, American values, UTUSN Jan 26 #10
Somebody posted this on social media years ago FakeNoose Jan 26 #11
That's it in a nutshell. SergeStorms Jan 26 #23
... Drum Jan 26 #12
The Tea Party was a corporate astroturf creation, funded by corporate-backed organizations like Americans for sop Jan 26 #13
Yeap. Dick Armie's Army of Dicks. madinmaryland Jan 26 #19
And without the Fox lie machine ... 31st Street Bridge Jan 27 #37
Those people long ago performed.... lastlib Jan 26 #14
Wait... Jughead Jan 26 #15
..who needs to worry about guns when the BRAINS are on safety... ForeGoneLegsBirne Jan 26 #28
They went from "don't tread on me" MaineBlueBear Jan 26 #16
That's a good way to put it. JohnnyRingo Jan 27 #36
Psss psss psss psss psss Meow Meow DinahMoeHum Jan 26 #18
Don't tread on me. Tread on them! Harker Jan 26 #21
What they mean is EnergizedLib Jan 26 #22
They are alfredo Jan 26 #24
They are alfredo Jan 26 #25
Yep. The rightwing has become the government tyranny they always warned us about... Beartracks Jan 26 #26
You can't reason with morons or expect them to see the irony. mdbl Jan 26 #27
And they don't recognize that. Figarosmom Jan 26 #29
I guess I'd want to ask: WHY are you embracing a YELLOW flag? calimary Jan 26 #30
Well DONE, surfered... Cha Jan 27 #33
K & R Emile Jan 27 #34
Needs saying. jbandsma Feb 2 #38

unblock

(56,199 posts)
1. Ha! They fooled you! It's only tyranny if minorities have rights!
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 12:58 PM
Jan 26

Clearly they're fine with what's going on. They were only really upset when a black man was president and a woman was a serious contender.

C Moon

(13,643 posts)
32. Still can't believe we managed to get a female VP elected.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 01:16 AM
Jan 27

That next step seems impossible, but hopefully soon it will happen.

odins folly

(599 posts)
17. And yet
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 03:50 PM
Jan 26

They look at the year and wrongly assume Clinton was president. Because math is hard…..

Just like they blamed Obama for “golfing during the ‘08 housing crisis”

erronis

(23,913 posts)
5. The people flying that flag are as trustworthy as a trump. Don't take them at their words.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 02:07 PM
Jan 26

BonnieJW

(3,124 posts)
35. I call thesr people turds
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 09:41 AM
Jan 27

Because the coiled snake on a license plate looks like a pile of poop

chowder66

(12,249 posts)
7. They fly the flag and hoard their guns because they are terrified; not "patriots" as they see themselves.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 02:29 PM
Jan 26

Most of those people don't have any real world coping skills (other than guns, faux bravado and believing God and Jesus are going to grant them their inane or malignant wishes).

Wednesdays

(22,623 posts)
9. They may be ignorant, but not confused
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 02:41 PM
Jan 26

You see, it all depends on which political team's jersey the gun holder is wearing. Simple as that.

Martin68

(27,757 posts)
31. Judging people by their jersey, colors, or uniform is simple. Totally misunderstanding the meaning of the Gadsden flag
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 10:35 PM
Jan 26

suggests an ignorant misunderstanding of history and a confused interpretation for the symbol's meaning. I tend to keep a good distance from vehicles with that license plate. They tend to be ignorant, confused, and violent.

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
10. Among a slew of things they used to claim to support. Things like, the country, American values,
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 02:44 PM
Jan 26

veterans, democracy - little things like that.




FakeNoose

(41,674 posts)
11. Somebody posted this on social media years ago
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 02:46 PM
Jan 26


Basically all true ... their pretzel logic is astounding.

SergeStorms

(20,599 posts)
23. That's it in a nutshell.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 06:26 PM
Jan 26

Basically, they just hate brown and black people. And anyone to the left of Joseph Geobbels. Can't forget that one.

sop

(18,653 posts)
13. The Tea Party was a corporate astroturf creation, funded by corporate-backed organizations like Americans for
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 03:11 PM
Jan 26

Prosperity and FreedomWorks, both founded by the Koch brothers. These organizations, with a lot of help from rightwing media, transformed a bunch of ignorant, gun-toting, flag-waving yahoos into a national anti-tax and anti-regulation movement that directly benefited corporate America.

lastlib

(28,283 posts)
14. Those people long ago performed....
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 03:19 PM
Jan 26

a frontal self-lobotomy. They opened their skulls, took out the critical-thinking part of their brains, and tossed it in the bio-waste bin. They cannot employ logic to the situations they confront in the modern world.

JohnnyRingo

(20,882 posts)
36. That's a good way to put it.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 09:54 AM
Jan 27

The NRA said for years that was their only mission.
The fools don't realize that when a dictatorship comes to collect newly illegal firearms they don't check the voting records.

EnergizedLib

(3,048 posts)
22. What they mean is
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 05:28 PM
Jan 26

‘Don’t tread on ME. Who cares if they tread on YOU?’

They’re not truly for freedom.

Beartracks

(14,607 posts)
26. Yep. The rightwing has become the government tyranny they always warned us about...
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:56 PM
Jan 26

... but they're too blinded by fear, hate and disinformation to be able to tell.

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mdbl

(8,661 posts)
27. You can't reason with morons or expect them to see the irony.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:24 PM
Jan 26

They are just too F'ing stupid.

calimary

(90,067 posts)
30. I guess I'd want to ask: WHY are you embracing a YELLOW flag?
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 09:54 PM
Jan 26

Yellow is a color commonly used to symbolize cowardice.

jbandsma

(6 posts)
38. Needs saying.
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 12:13 PM
Feb 2

...that can shoot gun owners with a permit to carry,... AFTER they've removed the legally carried gun from the owner. The only surprise is that they didn't use his own gun to shoot him so they could then spin it as suicide.

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