Not wanting a flame war, but let’s examine those statements.
The set of “flag-wavers” is entirely, or almost entirely contained in the set of Trump supporters, but is a minor sub-set of that set, as was shown by the election: there are not enough of them to have a major political effect.
Policies and actions demonstrate that Barack Obama is better described by your characterization of disrespect for the US and its principles.
I’m not “terribly concerned” with American flags on pick-up trucks. But, like most people, I correctly conclude the driver is an asshole.
bwahahaha
It’s been pretty clear for a while now that the people who wave the flag most aggressively are the ones most interested in undermining the foundations of the country - because they don’t like the country. They like their idealized vision of what they imagine the country used to be - when men were men, women were servants, dark-skinned people knew their place, poor people only existed as something for them to feel better than, and gay people straight up didn’t exist. The actual real country, the one that has cell phones and internet and doesn’t like nazis - they hate that country. The have adopted the flag as a symbol of the fact that their version of the country is the real version of the country, and that everyone who disagrees with them can just die.
It would indeed be nice if the Right wasn’t using the flag to mean “I’m more american than you.” But they’ve been doing it for a while.
Oh my god, the sad twisted irony.
Look at these assholes.
No pick-up truck in that photo. So, you’ve missed the essential point.
Right - it should be noted that there are times and places that a flag should be printed or flown. Outside government buildings, for example. On military units. Little ones by the millions on the fourth of July (most of which will be thrown in the trash or set on fire in accordance with national flag-respecting rules). Things like that. In cases where the flag belongs, it’s entirely normal and sends no “this dude is an anti-american shithead” messages.
It’s when you see flags elsewhere, where they don’t belong, that you should worry.
Someone who kneels for the national anthem, someone who sets the flag on fire in protest, even someone who shits on a burning flag during the national anthem is following the ideals of America far more closely than one who would prohibit that.
I don’t think so.
I’ll admit I don’t understand this at all.
But I’m not worried.
Yeah, you have. The flag is a martial banner, so it belongs in battlefield arenas. The persons in that image were make a claim of victory in a wartime setting. That is an entirely typical way to use a flag. Waving it bigly from the back of your pickup in a time of nominal peace is a completely different statement.
Sigh, Boise has gotten bad lately with the coal rollin asshats and their curb-hoppin deisel powered grocery getters. I blame it on the influx of furriners from Joisey n Philly. Oddly enough though, I’ve noticed the big flags on poles in the back of trucks or on the back of motocycles less the last few years.
For the Record, I wear a small American Flag Being Held by an Angel/Cherub on one specific hat in memory of my brother who died while serving
Ugh, we have those up north as well. As an avid road cyclist, I am finding they are my least favorite vehicles on the road. I fear that someday I will be hit with an oversized passenger side mirror right before I’m “coal rolled”. And I bet the douche will have some sort of flag, NRA, american redoubt, molon labe, etc accoutrements.
So, where else do flags belong?
Not here, or here, or here, and not here either.
ETA: there were a bunch on pinterest too, but you have to have an account to link to those, and I wasn’t that interested.
Having a flag on your truck just means the owner is patriotic. It doesn’t make anyone an ‘asshole’ necessarily. While I think it’s kind of nice and support those that do it, I have my suspicions about the motives of some.
For instance, I seen a Ford F-450 with a huge lift kit and two American flags on the truck, driving through one of the most liberal neighborhoods in Chicago (Wicker Park-Milkwaukee-Damen) and even being conservative leaning myself, I was suspicious they had a motive for doing that. They were likely stereotyping liberals as American flag haters, just as those who assume White+Pickup Truck+Flag = “white and racist”. In this case they both may have been right in their assumptions. Just what I thought though, could’ve been completely innocuous.
My sympathies my friend. I always want to do something illegal to the folks I see needlessly crowding the cyclists around here (and we have plenty).
Serves him right for wearing that queer outfit. Bike was probably made in France, to boot.
Ah, using the American flag to troll fellow americans, how patriotic.
Were they at least adhering to the flag code?
Yes, and also gigantic bed-mounted exhaust pipes that spew noxious diesel smoke onto all the unsuspecting “fags” that drive Mazda Miatas and Toyota Prius cars.
