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tavernier

(13,024 posts)
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 07:24 AM Sep 7

Has anyone else noticed absence of American Flag at MAGA homes?

Some people in my town fly Trump flags, which is their right, but lately I have noticed that at those homes they no longer fly our country’s flag. I started paying attention to this when I purchased a new flag before Labor Day. My husband was a stickler on replacing old faded flags, said it was disrespectful to our troops, although he didn’t serve as a youth due to a medical issue.

I know for a while the Trumpies made a big deal about flag waving and kissing and truck flying, so I was a little surprised to see that they have decided that the Trump flags or banners are now an acceptable replacement.

Just wondering if this is a thing in their cult, or is it just a random decision? I don’t understand cult thinking so I’m just a little baffled by this switch of allegiance.

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BoRaGard

(2,139 posts)
1. MagatLand (R) is spiritually based in The Underworld
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 07:30 AM
Sep 7

where the republicans can revel together in their collective submission to THE GREAT DECEPTION.

tavernier

(13,024 posts)
9. Thank you!!
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:17 AM
Sep 7

Loitering around in art museums is a passion of mine. I almost got thrown out of Russia because I didn’t obey the time restrictions in the Hermitage. It’s a long story and totally Rembrandt’s fault, but that’s for another time.

bucolic_frolic

(45,767 posts)
2. I am not seeing distress flags flying
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 07:30 AM
Sep 7

I can only think of one currently. To me that means no matter how much Trump tells us everything is so bad in America, his cult isnt buying the same Done Old sauce.

tavernier

(13,024 posts)
4. Who is the artist?
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 07:55 AM
Sep 7

The style looks very familiar but I don’t remember seeing it before.

Sorry, this was meant for another poster.

catbyte

(35,305 posts)
3. It's not a particularly new phenomenon. I remember the J6 traitors pulled down the American flag
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 07:48 AM
Sep 7

at the Capitol and replaced it with a Trump flag as they were erecting the gallows. It was nauseating. It still is.

BoRaGard

(2,139 posts)
7. And they pissed and shit in the US Capitol
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:05 AM
Sep 7

The magat republicans literally shit and pissed on America.

dwayneb

(819 posts)
8. Trump just took a dump on our veterans at Arlington
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:17 AM
Sep 7

I found that completely revolting. This is a man who effectively espouses the same beliefs as the fascists and dictators that those soldiers fought and died to protect us from.

Although I know how we got here, through decades of right-wing propaganda and brainwashing, it's still sickening and very hard to watch this once great nation begin to crumble, and to realize what is ahead for our children and grandchildren if we allow these anarchists to take control of our government.

BoRaGard

(2,139 posts)
10. And the G.O.P. comes out in furious support
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:31 AM
Sep 7

of their Felon treating America's war dead as "suckers and losers."

Arger68

(688 posts)
11. I haven't seen it since 2020, but
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 08:32 AM
Sep 7

back then I saw a few places with a trump flag above the American flag. One of the most disrespectful things I've ever seen, and absolutely infuriating. Can you imagine if someone put an Obama flag above an American flag in 2008 or 2012? It probably would have been national news, and the righties would have been howling for months about it.

mucholderthandirt

(780 posts)
12. Take your old flags to a local VFW post to be properly disposed of. Thanks to your husband for respecting the flag.
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 05:22 PM
Sep 7

tavernier

(13,024 posts)
14. We do that at our local Elks where I am a member.
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 12:58 PM
Sep 8

Hubby passed a few years back, but I still hear him in my ear.

RandomNumbers

(18,059 posts)
13. That is not true in my town.
Sat Sep 7, 2024, 06:24 PM
Sep 7

Usually if there is a Trump sign there is an American flag. Not always.

Usually if there are ANY political signs, especially liberal/Dem, there is an American flag, but not always.

Some people don't fly flags for reasons other than lack of patriotism. Although if someone is flying a MAGA flag and NOT an American flag, to me that absolutely indicates a lack of patriotism. The main reason to not fly a flag is not having a flag holder on your house, not being handy enough to do it oneself, and being lame about hiring someone to get it done for you. (Not that I know anyone like that )

Mysterian

(5,041 posts)
15. They defile the flag with their blue "support police" shit rags
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 01:01 PM
Sep 8

They know not what it means to be a patriot, although that's what they call themselves as they advocate destroying the constitution and installing a madman dictator.

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