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a kennedy

(35,332 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:16 PM May 2025

Just hung my American flag out for the holiday weekend......damn near almost hung it upside down......

I didn’t, but am thinking about doing it for the 4th of July. Whadaya think??

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Just hung my American flag out for the holiday weekend......damn near almost hung it upside down...... (Original Post) a kennedy May 2025 OP
Careful the Alito family will buy the house next-door and move in. magicarpet May 2025 #1
I wanted to hang one side by side with a Ukrainian flag. Three years ago, I'd have gotten cheers... hlthe2b May 2025 #2
Down the road in the 2nd town down, there are two Ukraine flags!!!!! a kennedy May 2025 #7
Certainly do it for dotard's birthday newdeal2 May 2025 #3
Right, great idea....and fawk him. a kennedy May 2025 #8
I remember MAGATs doing that Diamond_Dog May 2025 #4
Almost cut my hair... GJGCA May 2025 #5
I used up my American flag stamps on bills today. usonian May 2025 #6
Shoot, I've got flag stamps......and now they're going on envelopes UPSIDE DOWN!!!! a kennedy May 2025 #9
Do it on Flag Day which also is military parade day. Sneederbunk May 2025 #10
FLAG DAY IS tRump's Birthday too??? DAMN. a kennedy May 2025 #11

hlthe2b

(112,835 posts)
2. I wanted to hang one side by side with a Ukrainian flag. Three years ago, I'd have gotten cheers...
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:20 PM
May 2025

And... I'd guess the majority of those around me would still support it, but there are undoubtedly a handful of Trumpists in one of the neighborhoods that adjoin mine who might use it as an excuse to vandalize. So, I'll put up a sunflower house flag instead. sigh...

a kennedy

(35,332 posts)
7. Down the road in the 2nd town down, there are two Ukraine flags!!!!!
Fri May 23, 2025, 06:34 PM
May 2025

They’re pretty weathered, but I love that they’re still flying……gawd I hate that orange piece of shit.

Diamond_Dog

(39,784 posts)
4. I remember MAGATs doing that
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:56 PM
May 2025

and I wondered what was such a terrible hardship for them in Biden’s administration?

GJGCA

(238 posts)
5. Almost cut my hair...
Fri May 23, 2025, 06:05 PM
May 2025
...it happened just the other day

"more than any other song of the entire era", it "captures the extent to which the divisiveness in American society ... had boiled over into violence and terror".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Cut_My_Hair#:~:text=Although%20the%20notion%20of%20long,and%20opposition%20to%20establishment%20values.

usonian

(23,594 posts)
6. I used up my American flag stamps on bills today.
Fri May 23, 2025, 06:20 PM
May 2025

They were right side up but the envelopes were upside down.

a kennedy

(35,332 posts)
9. Shoot, I've got flag stamps......and now they're going on envelopes UPSIDE DOWN!!!!
Fri May 23, 2025, 06:37 PM
May 2025

Thanks for the idea.

a kennedy

(35,332 posts)
11. FLAG DAY IS tRump's Birthday too??? DAMN.
Fri May 23, 2025, 06:54 PM
May 2025

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 so……Flag Day IS the day as tRump’s military parade AND HIS GAWD DAMN BIRTHDAY.

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