I have them inserted in my two blue planters with red and blue flowers, in the boxwood wreath on the door and the side planter with white flowers. I consider that an APPROPRIATE commemorative (not celebratory) display.

"Men seem to be more patriotic"

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Red blooded, white skinned blue bloods. Red, white and blue is racist! And what are the colors of Trump's costume???

The best illustration of this that I've ever seen was a big US flag flying from one corner of the bed of a big ol' pickup, and a Confederate flag of equal size on the other. I wished I had some way of saying to the driver, "Dude, you really don't get it, do you?"

is because I don't want my neighbors thinking I'm a Trumpster.

Because it seems like flag flying in general is an older person thing.

As an old Millennial, flags just aren't a thing that exist in my world. Can't think of a single friend who bothers. I have one friend who has a pride flag draped along the railing of his patio, and that's about it.

Hell, the only flag pole in my entire neighborhood is an American and Marine flag, but the guy is a 50 year old ex-marine (who is a decent sort). A real estate person puts little flags at the end of everyone's lawn every July 4th with their card attached as advertising. It is the strangest thing. Whenever we see it, it's like aliens have landed. "Oh right, American flags are a thing."

Growing up in the burbs in the 80s and 90s, people did used to put them up for things like Memorial Day and July 4th. But it feels like that tradition has been dying out over the past 20 years. Or maybe my anecdotal is different because I moved from the Midwest to California.

Will never own one agin.

Very few flags in my town of 40k on peoples homes.

When we drove from Austin to San Antonio once I was shocked to see the Texas State flag effing everywhere. It was so cringe. Except for government buildings no one in NY flies the NYS flag.

that lone star is its Yelp rating.

... on standard house-mounted brackets and poles. However with our American flag we also have a 4" x 60" black ribbon/banner attached at the top link. This is normally used to indicate "half-staff" on flags that cannot be physically lowered to a literal half-staff position.

I put it on our flag the day that Jimmy Carter died... and there it will remain until Trump dies.


(not our flag... just an example photo)

I can’t blame anyone for not flying the flag, especially African Americans.

as a MAGAt symbol.

Tattered flags blowing behind big ass trucks are a good clue that you are dealing with a moron behind the wheel, it's helpful to be able to identify idiots with anger issues and maga hats from a distance.

But I learned the flag code in school and it makes me a little annoyed to see that.

ETA: SO, yeah, I get why a lot of people don't fly it, particularly people who are Black (or any kind of not-white). It's a symbol of division these days.

Probably never will again.

I'd even installed a flag mount on the house when Obama was elected.