I think the signs for DJT exist to give me something to flip off as I drive through residential streets. Fortunately, we have nary a one in my neighborhood this year. They might have some slight influence in encouraging people to vote as in “gee, look at all my neighbors are supporting the candidate that I was thinking about voting for. Maybe that is the right thing to do after all.”
Because that’s the point of supporting Trump. Not that they will personally attack their neighbors, but that they want to put people into power who will have their neighbors rounded up and massacred for them.
In my suburban neighborhood there are a couple of houses that fly Trump flags every day (one of which uses a real flagpole in the front yard, which is unusual here), and a couple more flying them around election time, including the one that said “Trump 2020 - F!ck your feelings”. So yeah, I think those neighborly neighbors want to sent that message, too. As well as “it’s okay to vote for Trump” to the less visible MAGAs.
just like Trump massacred all those people LAST time he was in power…
He wanted to, he kept being talked down.
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I put up a 2002 campaign sign for the sheriff in an adjacent county - every election year since then. Before i do it again, perhaps you can tell me why.
We were friendly. I was also friendly with his replacement in the tightly contested 2010 election. I worked summers as a ranger/EMT in that county for 15 years.
It might confuse my local town cops and i have to hope that doesn’t provoke critical mass.
It ain’t art although that has been my quick answer when asked. Livening up the moribund political dialogue in this country has been another sporty riposte.
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Yes, just like that.
Are you claiming that Trump and his administration didn’t round up people when he was in office? Are you claiming Trump didn’t call for violent uprisings? Are you claiming violent uprisings didn’t happen?
I don’t see what the question is here.
Yes indeed.
The school boards can be crucial. That’s who’s deciding how the children are educated – and those children are about to be voters. Or not. In either case, it matters. There’s a reason national groups are trying to take over local school boards.
And those little local elections are also where the state ones start. Get your name known locally and some experience in running a campaign, then run for the state houses.
The state legislatures control the voting process.
Those little local elections not only affect a lot of local lives – which would be reason enough to vote in them, and to try one’s best (it’s often difficult) to research the candidates first; they also affect the federal elections, sometimes drastically, if not always immediately.
I haven’t the money, or the time/physical energy (they’re strongly related), to do much else. But I vote in every election I’m eligible to vote in.
Not liking a particular candidate for specific reasons not based on their popularity is an entirely different thing from making one’s decisions based on what other people say that they’re doing; which appears to be what @Little_Nemo found ironic.
In the primaries, strategic voting for the candidate more likely to get elected can be a reasonable thing – as long as you do like that candidate for some additional reasons. That’s the only case in which popularity in itself ought to come into the decision; beyond its encouraging you to find out why the candidate is popular (or unpopular) in order to see if you agree.
[ETA: However, some people do vote for such reasons; so I agree that it’s one reason for the yard signs.]
By saying that they favor a candidate who encourages such things.
I will grant that some Trump supporters may really not think that Trump does so; so I don’t think such a sign necessarily communicates that idea. But it certainly raises suspicions.
People in the adjacent county presumably sometimes drive through your county.
So I say, why not?
I’m claiming Trump did not massacre people (your “neighbors” even!) in his first stint as President and thus find it dubious that he would do so if elected again, as suggested by the poster I was replying to.
But is Rufus T. Firefly on their ballot???
Oh, you didn’t know. Let me share the facts with you.
Trump did a terrible job during the Covid crisis. And that was on him; there were people who were saying what needed to be done. Trump chose not to listen.
1,200,000 Americans died of Covid (rounded off to the nearest hundred thousand). (I’m assuming most people in other countries ignored Trump and he was responsible for very few Covid deaths outside of the United States.)
Realistically, some of those Americans would have died even if we had had a competent president in office. We’ll use Canada’s statistics as a hypothetical model for what America could have done. America’s Covid death rate was 3508 deaths per million population. Canada’s was 1412 per million or 40% of America’s. Forty percent of 1,200,000 is 500,000, which means Trump’s mishandling of the Covid crisis was responsible for 700,000 deaths (figures again rounded off).
So Donald Trump, during his presidency, used his powers in a manner that killed seven hundred thousand Americans. That, to me, is a massacre.
Now you know. What you do with this knowledge is up to you.
There were also children in cages at the border. Many of whom were effectively orphaned, as the people who took them from their parents didn’t bother to keep the records that would allow families to be reunited.
Considering the number of deaths that were caused by his incompetence, it has always been my opinion that he should have been charged with negligent homicide.
Orphaning those children was probably the intent. Fingerprinting somebody when they’re taken into custody is so routine that it would have been normal to do so, even with children. So somebody must have made the decision to tell the government agents who were taking the children into custody to not follow normal procedure.
That’s it for me — the chance it might make a small difference. I put up a candidate’s sign in my yard for the first time about 2 hours ago. My wife made a contribution at a speaking engagement and came home with a sign.
Maybe my lack of apathy will encourage a neighbor to go vote.
Maybe name recognition will cause a bored voter to select my candidate’s name.
I salute those who are putting up Harris signs.
I on the other hand, live within 3 blocks of at least two homes that didn’t stop flying Trump2020 flags (on a pole, one as a 3’x3’ banner on their fence) until they were replaced with Trump2024 flags.
And of course, Colorado Springs is semi-notorious for our RW-based Christian Nationalist adjacent insanity.
So I’ll quietly vote, and because I don’t trust those neighbors… I’ll drop my mail in ballot at a secure dropbox, of which there are more than enough.
Thank you for the stats. They are irrelevant for the discussion at hand. You need to look up what the word “massacre” means and commit it to memory. You can’t just change the meaning of words to make circumstances fit. Let me be clear, I am not defending Trump. The man is a black stain upon history. But to claim he “massacred” people during his presidency (covid victims or otherwise) is ridiculous. The level of hysteria around the man on this forum is exhausting to read sometimes. Please focus on his actual misdeeds and incompetency (there are so many to choose from!). Did his malfeasance and inaction lead to more people dying during covid than otherwise would have? Probably! But he did NOT massacre those victims. Got it?
This depresses me. Put up a doorbell camera, and put any sign you want in view of the camera. This is the USA, where rule of law is still pretty strong. Better to stand up to bullies now, or we may never have a chance to Scour the Shire.
(Different people are frightened of different things. For me a political sign is no big deal, but I’m frightened by things others might roll their eyes at.)
There is that. Giving in to bullies often makes the situation worse, and then you eventually wind up in a position in which they’re going to hurt you no matter what.
However, I don’t feel I should make this decision for other people. Some are at greater risk than others, and some have a greater ability to deal with it than others. But the voting booth (or envelope) is still private.