I think it’s spelled Prisencolinensinainciusol.
As a kindergartner, and a 1st and 2nd grader as well, I had no idea what either a pledge or allegiance were.
It was indoctrination, acceptance before understanding.
The woman serving as clerk of court in Colleton County, S.C. during the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial has pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges, relating to such things as improperly providing news media access to sealed trial exhibits and promotion of a book about the case.
“There is no excuse for my mistakes” said Mary Hill.
Mistakes…I’ve made a few
but they were actually sleazy behavior
Diverting federal funds to herself, plagiarism, improperly spending county money - “mistakes” she regrets.
I think I thought I was being very patriotic.
But — you know, I thought I was pledging allegiance to the country “with liberty and justice for all.” As an adult, I’m not expecting miracles. But we’re supposed to be trying to get there. And my allegiance is to that attempt.
I believe the sixth word, flag, is what people are pledging alligence to.
It’s taking longer than we thought.
True.
It’s been a pretty damn bumpy road all along, though (which they definitely didn’t teach me in grade school.) I’m not giving up yet.
I low-key care about the flag. Maybe it was just the way I was raised but I brought one to the No Kings protest and I was kinda bothered by people waving theirs upside-down. I’m not as bothered about bikinis or whatever, but if you’re gonna display an actual flag, display it with respect.
I’m just as bothered by those ones with a blue stripe. Nobody corners the market on patriotism. I know that means many things to many people but to me it’s about a set of ideals that I genuinely believe are worth pursuing even when we’re all making a mess of things. And I’ve always found symbols pretty moving.
So yeah, I’m pro flag.
I remember going to movies when I was four and five years old. Dad was a Naval officer, and we usually saw movies on the base. They’d play The Star-Spangled Banner before the film. I remember standing in the aisle, saluting the screen.
It’s funny, You recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning through elementary school. As an adult, you’re called anti-American for wanting liberty and justice for all. 
“…and to the Republic for which it stands.”
My work uniform includes a nametag with a flag in one corner.
I cover it with my “employee owner since 2011” pin because I think wearing the flag is disrespectful.
Jeffrey Epstein could really get down!
At our No Kings protest, our family waved flags with the canton by the staff and toward the top, as is the correct way to display and fly the flag, but it is also true that the display of the flag with the canton on the bottom is recognized as a distress signal.
Perhaps that’s the meaning the protesters were trying to get at?
I have no doubt that the protesters who were displaying the flag upside-down were doing so expressly for that reason.
I’ve been to a couple of those so far. They were both full of American flags, and both times someone came through offering more. (I’d brought my own.)
Be careful what you teach your kids. Sometimes they actually learn it.
(somewhere, right now, I suspect there’s a kid arguing with their MAGA parent because the kid actually did do their own research.)
As to the dump truck covers specifically.
There’s a difference between a “flag” and a flag-themed sheet with 4 or 6 red & white stripes and a few white stars on a blue field somewhere near the staff side. That is American flag-like, not an American flag.
Red white and blue bunting is also flag-like. But is not a flag.
Tonight I was out driving around to admire some Christmas lights in an area with lots of them. I came upon a balcony railing on a high-rise apartment building where they had American flags displayed in lights.
Today I learned somebody is now selling mesh panels of red, white, and blue LEDs about 3’ x 5’ in the form of an American Flag. There’s a LOT of LEDs in each one so they make pretty decent flag likenesses.
Anyhow, this “patriotic” (read “MAGA traitor”) rocket scientist had wallpapered his corner balcony railing with 5 of these flags hung vertical edge to vertical edge; two on one face of his balcony railing and three on the other.
Except they were all installed to look correct from inside their apartment, so we out in the world were seeing all the flags from the back side with the blue field at the upper right. Not in the news, but definitely stupid, probably an MFer, and riding the short bus, not the omnibus.
Tonight I also learned they’re also now selling red white and blue dripping icicle lights where each “drip” changes color as it slides down the “icicle”. Our hero had a bunch of those going too.
The fact all this stuff is made in Communist China just makes me grin.
Where’s Communist China? Is that a tiny island off the coast of Capitalist China, or something?
Anyway, if I may hijack this thread about flag etiquette with a story about some stupid MFers in the news;
A PS5 reboot of Postal, the cult classic ‘90s FPS, has been canceled two days after it was announced, after the developer put out a blatantly AI-generated trailer, lied about it, then admitted it the next day and announced they were shutting down due to their having irreparably destroyed their brand.
I get your point.
I was using what should be the snarl term all the patriotic true blue American MAGAnuts ought to be using. Them sending all their dollars over there ought to be viewed as unpatriotic by the right. Or at least ought to be if they had any logical consistency to their thoughts and behaviors.
Sorry if that sorta-sarcasm was a bit too subtle.